• Cases should be prescreened for merit by medical panels before they can proceed — 79 percent
• Place caps on noneconomic damages — 60 percent
• Medical cases should be tried before health courts — 39 percent
• Lawyers should be banned from taking cases “on contingency” — 35 percent
• Doctors should stop making medical errors — 10 percent
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