op-edsCommon Good Leading Effort to Develop Models for Special Health Courts
Paul Barringer, AAP News, Vol. 28 No. 11, November 11, 2007
Common Good General Counsel Paul Barringer described the potential benefits of a health court system, including increased patient safety and compensation for many medical injuries that fall through the cracks in the current system.
New Ideas for Liability Reform: Health Courts and Administrative Compensation
Paul Barringer, PA ACOG News, June 7, 2007
Common Good General Counsel Paul Barringer details the promise for health courts in Pennsylvania, a state particularly attuned to the problems with our current medical malpractice system.
Dedicated Health Courts Can End Malpractice Crisis
Philip K. Howard, Washington Examiner, May 11, 2007
In the Washington Examiner, Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard describes how distrust of the American justice system has led to a crisis in healthcare.
Juryless Health Courts Could Stabilize 'Crisis'
Philip K. Howard, The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2006
Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard writes that the recent ABA resolution opposing the creation of special health courts smacks of self-interest by lawyers.
The Case for Health Courts
Philip K. Howard, ThisMakesMeSick.com, February 10, 2006
Common Good Chair Philip K. Howard explains why we need special health courts.
The Tortuous Road to Tort Reform
Paul Barringer, AZ Medicine, December 1, 2005
Common Good general counsel Paul Barringer exposes the problems with medical malpractice reform, including the “wildly inconsistent verdicts” in malpractice cases and the troubling rate of defensive medicine in hospitals.
Health Courts: A Better Approach to Malpractice Reform
Paul Barringer, BNA Health Law Reporter, June 23, 2005
Why do we need special health courts? How would health courts work? How can health courts become a reality? Common Good General Counsel Paul Barringer answers these questions in the BNA Health Law Reporter.
Let's Create Health Courts
Paul Barringer, The National Law Journal, May 2, 2005
In a special to The National Law Journal, Common Good general counsel Paul Barringer lays out the argument for special health courts and discusses the growing support from healthcare and patient safety experts and from political leaders on both sides of the aisle.
Dispelling Malpractice Myths
William R. Brody, The Washington Post, November 14, 2004
An op-ed by Common Good Advisory Board member William R. Brody.
A Case for Medical Justice
Philip K. Howard, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 2004
To ensure consistency in awards, malpractice suits should be reserved for judges with special training.
Heal the Law, Then Health Care
Troyen A. Brennan and Philip K. Howard, The Washington Post, January 25, 2004
"The legal system today is a string of ad hoc decisions, jury by jury, with no rulings of right and wrong and no guidance on where to improve."
The Best Course of Treatment
Philip K. Howard, The New York Times, July 21, 2003
"Doctors and patients aren't natural enemies. They've been driven apart by an unreliable system of justice that tolerates both abusive claims and bad care, breeding distrust on both sides."
Support Safer Care
Margaret E. O'Kane, The Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2003
Op-ed by CG Advisory Board member Margaret O'Kane in support of a national patient safety database.
Yes, It's a Mess - But Here's How to Fix It
Philip K. Howard, Time Magazine, July 2, 2003
TIME Magazine's cover story, "The Doctor is Out", takes an in-depth look at the effects of rising malpractice insurance rates with stories from doctors, patients, insurers and lawmakers. In a featured editorial, Common Good chair Philip K. Howard offers a solution to the growing malpractice crisis.
Legal Malpractice
Philip K. Howard, The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2003
"Who's in charge today? No one. No judge, legislature, or agency is making deliberate judgments of what is reasonable care and what is not."
Restore Reliability to Medical Justice
Nancy Udell, American Association of Neurological Surgeons Bulletin, January 1, 2003
Common Good director of policy makes the case for a new system of medical justice, including special health courts.
The Death of Common Sense
Philip K. Howard, Ob. Gyn. News, January 1, 2003
"For every lawsuit, there are millions and probably billions of decisions made or not made reasonably, every day, because of fear of the system. It has literally changed our culture."
Is the Legal System Broken?
The New York Times, The Washington Post, December 26, 2002
Common Good Advertorial: "Reform is desperately needed but must go much further than capping excessive awards. Reform must restore reliability to law."
The Wrong Approach to Gain Better Healthcare
Philip K. Howard, St. Petersburg Times, November 10, 2002
"Restoring reliability to medical justice requires a kind of legal revolution, in which legislatures and judges, perhaps in a special medical court, begin again to make deliberate judgments about what's right and what's wrong, about what's fair and what's not."
Everybody Loses
Philip K. Howard, Daily News, September 29, 2002
"Open the door to litigation over fairness after a mass tragedy, and no one will ever be satisfied."
Excessive Jury Awards Endanger Medical System
Newt Gingrich, USA Today, August 13, 2002
An op-ed by Common Good Advisory Board member Newt Gingrich.
There Is No Right to Sue
Philip K. Howard, The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2002
"The point of law is not to let anyone sue for anything. Law's goal is closer to the opposite: to draw the boundaries of who can sue for what."
We're Reaping What We Sue
George S. McGovern and Alan K. Simpson, Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2002
Former U.S. Senators from opposite sides of the aisle, George S. McGovern and Alan K. Simpson write, "Lawsuits, a vital tool of justice, support a free society only when judges and legislatures take the responsibility of deciding who can sue for what. Otherwise, fear replaces freedom." Mr. McGovern and Mr. Simpson are both Common Good Advisory Board Members.
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