Tort Reform Law 
LETTER: Tort reform missing piece of health care affordability – Abington Mariner
The so-called “Affordable Care Act” was sold to us as the way to bring down health care costs. Let’s forget for now that it actually raises costs significantly; it just moves those costs to other categories. That the act does … Continue reading
Health care reform is still a work in progress – Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
Allow people to keep affordable plans like health savings accounts and AHPs. Implement tort reform to reduce frivolous lawsuits. Fear of lawsuits forces doctors to order unnecessary tests and causes malpractice insurance rates to skyrocket.
Drug Company GlaxoSmithKline Puts American Values to Shame – Huffington Post
In particular, some who seem worshipful of corporations call for tort “reform” to make companies less vulnerable to lawsuits. Yet if I had never been a medical expert in product liability cases against a number of drug companies, I would … Continue reading
In Defense of Israel Advocacy – Daily Beast
You would not expect the high-powered Association of Trial Lawyers of America to entertain an open discussion on tort reform, or the AARP to publicly contemplate means testing social security. Why, then, would you expect AIPAC or other Israel …
Patients, docs win — and lawyers lose – New York Post
Nothing like it has been tried anywhere — but if it works, imitators are sure to follow. Floating around academic circles for years, early-offer tort reforms have been championed by U. of Virginia law professor Jeffrey O’Connell and others, including … Continue reading
Poor face limited health care choices – Standard-Times
Republican leaders have passed major tort reform laws to bring down the price of malpractice insurance in Texas, but that hasn’t done enough to solve the shortage of primary care physicians. Texas has 72 primary care physicians per 100,000 …
Texas doctors cut back on helping poor patients – Click2Houston.com
Republican leaders have passed major tort reform laws to bring down the price of malpractice insurance in Texas, but that hasn’t done enough to solve the shortage of primary care physicians. Texas has 72 primary care physicians per 100,000 …
Texas doctors cut back on poor patients – Beaumont Enterprise
Republican leaders have passed major tort reform laws to bring down the price of malpractice insurance in Texas, but that hasn’t done enough to solve the shortage of primary care physicians. Texas has 72 primary care physicians per 100,000 people … Continue reading
Fewer Texas doctors willing to accept Medicare, Medicaid patients because of low pay, red tape – Austin American-Statesman
Republican leaders have passed major tort reform laws to bring down the price of malpractice insurance in Texas, but that hasn’t done enough to solve the shortage of primary-care physicians. Texas has 72 primary-care physicians per 100,000 people in urban … Continue reading
Texas docs cut back on poor patients – Amarillo Globe-Times
Republican leaders have passed major tort reform laws to bring down the price of malpractice insurance in Texas, but that hasn’t done enough to solve the shortage of primary care physicians. Texas has 72 primary care physicians per 100,000 …
