A social and fiscal conservative, Brecheen said he supports lawsuit reform and workers compensation reform that lowers costs for rural businesses while benefiting employees. “You only have to look across the Red River to see where tort reform is working. Texas hospitals have increased charity care by 25% and access to physicians is drastically increasing while Oklahoma has the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation.  The average physician there has seen their malpractice insurance claims go down 30% while Oklahoma OBGYN’s have seen their premiums spike 30% plus during the same time frame.