In 2009, physicians, medical students, and allies of
medicine were visible and vocal stop a proposed tax on physicians. We need your
help this week.
If we don’t bring as many people as possible to the Senate
Insurance Committee hearing in Lansing this Wednesday, July 18, the "Patients First Reform Package,"
a.k.a., the tort reform bills, could get stomped. This would put access to care
at risk for all patients in Michigan.
Our goal is to fill the hearing room to capacity and pressure the Committee—and ultimately the full Senate—to vote the tort reform bill package out. However, opposing groups are rallying their members to beat us to the punch and pack the room with their supporters. Please do your part to stop that from happening!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
1) Come to Lansing on July 18—bring your colleagues, staff, spouses, medical students, family, etc.—to the hearing so we can all occupy the seats that the trial lawyers have been occupying in previous hearings.
2) Spread the word about the event to as many people as possible by email, Facebook, Twitter, website, phone, text, IM, fax—whatever you can do!
3) Provide testimony on July 18 about your personal experience/s being sued and how it affected your practice and patients. Or share your story with the media. (MSMS staff will be on hand to facilitate testimony and media interviews.)
4) register here if you plan to attend—contact the KCMS office at 458-4157 or email kcmsoffice@kcms.org.
Our goal is to fill the hearing room to capacity and pressure the Committee—and ultimately the full Senate—to vote the tort reform bill package out. However, opposing groups are rallying their members to beat us to the punch and pack the room with their supporters. Please do your part to stop that from happening!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
1) Come to Lansing on July 18—bring your colleagues, staff, spouses, medical students, family, etc.—to the hearing so we can all occupy the seats that the trial lawyers have been occupying in previous hearings.
2) Spread the word about the event to as many people as possible by email, Facebook, Twitter, website, phone, text, IM, fax—whatever you can do!
3) Provide testimony on July 18 about your personal experience/s being sued and how it affected your practice and patients. Or share your story with the media. (MSMS staff will be on hand to facilitate testimony and media interviews.)
4) register here if you plan to attend—contact the KCMS office at 458-4157 or email kcmsoffice@kcms.org.
5) Keep flooding Senate Committee members’ offices with phone calls and Action Center messages.
Thank you.
