One leg of nearly every platform to lower healthcare costs includes legal reform. (The major exceptions, of course, come from the trial bar and the interest groups that its members fund.) Because of the direct impact that an inefficient and costly legal system has on healthcare costs, sector-specific proposals have been introduced at both the state and local level.
 
Trail lawyer stranglehold
 
Out-of-control legal costs are a recent phenomenon in this country, and corrective action by all three branches of government at both the state and federal levels is needed. The actuarial firm Tillinghast-TowersPerrin ...