Editorial: Cost of health care is world's problem
Observer-Reporter, Washington, PA - Oct 18, 2009
...Certainly, market forces are at work, and in this country there are other factors, such as our legal system that forces doctors to pay exorbitant premiums for malpractice insurance....

NY suer system stinks
New York Post, New York, NY - Oct 18, 2009
...The report particularly singled out New York's highest-in-the-nation medical-malpractice costs for doctors and hospitals, and charged that litigation contributed to the closure of the maternity ward at Long Island College Hospital...

Opinion - Dan Walters: California's 1988 insurance battle could see 2010 reprise
Sacramento Bee, CA - Oct 18, 2009
...It was a big battle in the decades-long "tort war" over rules governing who can sue whom for personal injuries, including auto accidents – a war fought in the Legislature, on the ballot and in the courts and whose financial stakes are untold billions of dollars...

Opinion - Anthony Tarricone: Blaming lawyers a bogeyman to stop health reform
CNN - Oct 18, 2009
...Instead of saving money for consumers, tort reform has served as a sop to the insurance industry, allowing them to make record profits off the backs of doctors and patients...

CEOs seek to spur jobs through small business, education
Wall Street Journal, NY - Oct 17, 2009
...CEOs also highlighted reforming medical malpractice rules, which critics have long said inflate health-care costs by pushing doctors to play defense and over-treat patients. While President Barack Obama has touched on the idea of reforming such rules, the executives' plan indicates they want something more aggressive because they seek a limit to awards...