A poll conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) found fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed want Congress to support comprehensive medical liability reform.  Seventy-one percent of those surveyed believe their access to affordable, high-quality health care is threatened by medical liability costs that are causing good doctors to leave medicine.

Read more about the Harris Interactive survey, which was conducted in May, 2011. The margin of error is +/- 3 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.