Joanna Smith http://www.thestar.com HALIFAX–New Democrat Leader Jack Layton made a billion-dollar promise to reduce the shortage of family doctors in Canada yesterday. “Having regular access to a family doctor is really the basic business of community health care,” Layton said in the medical building of Dalhousie University. “If you don’t have that, you don’t have […]

By JACK JAWITZ http://www2.tbo.com Have you seen them? They used to be among us. They used to be in your neighborhoods. We depend on them for our very life; from the day we’re born till the day we die, inclusive; and there are fewer and fewer in Florida. I am speaking about your doctors. The […]

Melissa Gannon http://www.thestreet.com Under the terms of an $85 billion government bailout, American International Group must sell off assets to pay back the loan over two years. A few of AIG’s 71 insurance subsidiaries stand out and likely will garner the best prices and most enthusiastic buyers. Three of them, all multibillion-dollar divisions, are the […]

http://www.kwch.com (AP) GALENA, Kan. (AP) – A Missouri physicians’ group plans to build a new medical office building in Galena, Kan., citing lower malpractice insurance costs across the state line. Dr. Christopher Banwart, a member of Orthopedic Specialists of the Four States in Joplin, said Kansas’ malpractice insurance rates are 50% lower than Missouri’s. Assistant […]

http://www.kaisernetwork.org Physicians in Pennsylvania are concerned that the state’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error fund, which provides doctors with subsidies for malpractice insurance, could expire this year as lawmakers debate changes to the state’s health care system, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Gov. Ed Rendell (D) and state House Democrats have refused to renew […]

By Vic Kolenc http://www.elpasotimes.com EL PASO — Doctors here and across Texas said dollar limits on medical malpractice lawsuits put into state law five years ago have made a big difference in how they practice medicine. The reduced threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits have made doctors more willing to accept high-risk patients, and have helped […]

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By Ben Boulden http://www.swtimes.com Two Fort Smith hospitals could become homes to physician residency programs in the future if some financial and bureaucratic obstacles are cleared, Dr. Peter Kohler said Tuesday. Kohler, vice chancellor on the northwest Arkansas campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, spoke to and answered questions from the House […]

http://www.earthtimes.org/ AUSTIN, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Five years after the implementation of sweeping medical liability reforms, Texas hospitals continue to experience major reductions in their liability costs and to reinvest their savings in programs that benefit patients and their communities. “Patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of the tort reform measures passed in 2003,” said Dan […]