Malpractice Tort Reform Update

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Tim Titolo

President Obama continues his quest to appease skeptics of his health care reform:

Since President Obama proposed using $25 million to test new ways to handle malpractice lawsuits, suitors have been lining up, the The Associated Press reports. One leading idea is to appoint expert panels to sort fact from fiction in malpractice claims. The "American Hospital Association has been shopping a new plan to lawmakers," and malpractice reform advocates are expected to propose another strategy for a pilot program at a Health and Human Services hearing next week. Doctors say they perform extra tests on patients because they fear lawsuits.

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