January 2017 Newsletter

  No false alarm on medical liability issues Responding to a Washington Post article earlier this month that charged advocates of medical liability reform with unnecessarily sounding the alarms on the need for fixes, the HCLA submitted a letter to the editor outlining...

Judd Gregg: Five easy pieces

Big agendas and bigger issues are being talked about by the new president and the Republican Congress. This is a good thing. This new government should aim to act boldly and quickly. For conservatives, there are also smaller but significant issues — points of...

Collateral source set to mark start of tort reform effort

With labor and ethics reform making up the majority of the General Assembly’s first two weeks in session, a few other bills at the top of Republican leadership’s docket may not have grabbed as much attention. However, they could be just as impactful for the state’s...

ACEP Outlines Legislative Principles for 115th Congress

As Congress takes up the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) today issued an outline of emergency medicine health care reform principles it considers indispensable to any...