side note: The letter below details what one lobbyist believes will be the outcome of the healthcare reform debate. He says that healthcare reform will pass, but expects selling it to the American people will take longer than the president expects. A lobbyist close to the battles over federal health care reform predicted a bill […]

side note: Republicans are trying to kill the Affordable Care Act, but at the same time, they are trying to insert strong tort reforms in the legislation. Two senators want to add loser pays language to the bill, where the loser of a malpractice lawsuit would have to pay the legal costs of the other […]

side note: In the debate over language in the Affordable Care Act, Se. Leahy of Vermont wants to include a repeal of medical malpractice insurance companies’ exemption from anti-trust laws. (AP) — MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy wants to amend the Senate’s health care reform bill to make health and medical malpractice insurers […]

side note: This seems to be how tort reform is unfolding in almost every state with tort reforms laws that cap non-economic damage on the books—court overturns legislation; legislators re-legislate. ATLANTA — A top GOP legislator vowed that lawmakers would quickly bolster Georgia’s new tort reform laws if any pieces are struck down by the […]

side note: New York’s medical malpractice insurance crisis seems to have no solution on the horizon, yet many, many people are offering their advice. Newswise — Lee Goldman, M.D., executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of medicine and health sciences at Columbia University testified today on medical malpractice […]

side note: Some in the California Legislature are arguing that language in the proposed Affordable Care Act would encourage the state to overturn its MICRA non-economic damage cap. One of the many contentious issues in the national health care debate is something that began 34 years ago in California when Jerry Brown, in the first […]

side note: The White House is saying that the alternative medical malpractice resolutions included in the Affordable Care Act are medical malpractice tort reforms. Charles Krauthammer and his conservative peers say that anything less than a federal non-economic damage cap is no real tort reform. The Obama White House puts to use the WhiteHouse.gov website […]

side note: This is an interesting article, mainly due to the fact that it is discussing tort within the framework of New York, which has a well-documented debacle of a medical malpractice insurance environment. High taxes help make New York an expensive place to do business. A new report argues convincingly that costly malpractice litigation […]

see original: While healthcare reform looks to be an inevitability, Republicans in Congress should start hammering this statistic in hopes of at least achieving some of their legislative goals. Tort reform is a reasonable hop for the party. WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The majority of Americans say federal lawmakers ought to make it more difficult for allegedly […]