Budget expands pilots, House panel acts on liability reform. (cover story)

The article discusses U.S. President Obama's request for a 100-million U.S. dollar funding to assess alternative tort improvement systems, and the House Judiciary Committee's H.R. 5 or the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act. It mentions that the proposal, which excludes categorical procedure instructions for medical liability reform, would increase the grants for state demonstration projects by 100 percent. It also cites the 250,000-U.S. dollar non-economic damages limit of H.R. 5.