National Journal Magazine:  “Our medical-malpractice lawsuit system is too capricious and too clogged with costs and delays to do justice for malpractice victims or for wrongly sued doctors. It also does little to deter malpractice.  Worse, unless fundamentally reformed, malpractice law could greatly weaken efforts to control health care costs. The main reason, in the view of many experts, is that doctors’ fear of unwarranted malpractice liability helps spur many billions of dollars in unnecessary “defensive medicine” costs.”

Wall St. Journal:  “What to make of this David Letterman situation?  On the sheer spectacle of the thing, we could go on and on — the weirdness of the alleged extortion plot, matched pound-for-pound by the weirdness of his on-air ‘confession,’ etc. But because we’re in the biz of all-law-all-the-time (except when we’re not, at which times you let us hear about it), we’re going to stick to the story’s legal intricacies.”