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Thornberry Bill Touts Health Courts

Greg Cunningham
Amarillo Globe-News, April 14, 2005

The Amarillo Globe-News reports that Representative Mac Thornberry (R-TX) has introduced a bill that would initiate the development of pilot health courts. Common Good is credited as a member of the two prong coalition, along with the Harvard School of Public Health, that has asserted “the push” for health courts. Thornberry believes health courts would bring consistent judgments back to a system that is currently ineffective.

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