By JENNIFER ROBISON http://www.lvrj.com Few topics on the 2008 campaign trail are hotter than health care. When it comes to covering the nation’s 47 million uninsured citizens, presidential candidates’ prescriptions have ranged from creating a single-payer federal system to reducing regulations on private insurance. But real solutions will fall in between those two poles, a […]

By Leland Kim http://www.khnl.com DOWNTOWN HONOLULU (KHNL) — The legal community responds to a new medical liability or tort reform bill, a day after the legislative health committee resuscitated it. Attorneys say the revived bill won’t help with the doctor shortage problem, and data from other states back them up. The medical community hopes a […]

By Derrick DePledge http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com The state House yesterday effectively killed a medical-malpractice liability reform bill, as lawmakers contended it was not the answer to the state’s shortage of medical specialists in rural areas and on the Neighbor Islands. State lawmakers will consider student loan repayment and stipends for doctors and dentists who work in poor […]

ANJEANETTE DAMON http://news.rgj.com The television ad clinched it. The image of trusted doctors in white coats trooping out of the state to flee high malpractice insurance rates bombarded voters, who overwhelmingly decided to cap the amount of money juries could award victims of botched medical procedures. The bitter fight in 2004, marked by twisted statistics […]

by Satta Sarmah Landing page Dolores Karadimos, 62, has a laundry list of ailments posted on a sheet of copy paper taped to her wall. The list with more than 16 bullet points includes illnesses ranging from fiber myalgia and a herniated disc to asthma, osteoarthritis and ulcers. A myriad of physical ailments render Karadimos […]

By Jeff Hayward http://www.newsdurhamregion.com UXBRIDGE — Asking taxpayers to open their wallets to entice new doctors to come to Uxbridge is the answer to compete with other underserviced municipalities, according to local physicians. But some, including Uxbridge’s mayor, are completely opposed to that idea. Township physicians are warning the Uxbridge Cottage Hospital’s emergency room could […]

By George Wallace http://www.zwire.com Some 250 physicians from John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, St. Charles Hospital and other healthcare facilities in Suffolk County descended on state government offices last week to press their case for reforms that would rein in alarming increases in malpractice insurance costs, which they say are driving doctors out of business […]

by MARK SCOLFORO – The Associated Press http://www.philly.com HARRISBURG, Pa. – House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a billion-dollar-plus plan to roll out state-subsidized health insurance for about 270,000 uninsured Pennsylvania adults over the next five years.Backers promoted it as the next logical step to follow recent state laws that cover children and pay prescription costs […]

By: Bradley Vasoli, The Bulletin http://www.thebulletin.us A policy institute yesterday released a report that ranked Pennsylvania’s legal climate the sixth worst in the nation in terms of both state policy and cost of litigation. The San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute compared the scope and impact of litigiousness on each state and determined that, judging by […]