Capitol Insight Action Alert: Sept. 23, 2009



State Budget Balanced with Physician Dollars?
Tell Lawmakers NO!

The members of the legislative conference committee on the state budget may meet as early as Friday morning. On the table is more than $100 million of your money paid to the state mandated Mcare Fund for your liability insurance coverage.

This most recent budget proposal takes your premium dollars to help balance the state budget—in essence, a “physician tax.”

The Pennsylvania Medical Society is pursuing all avenues in the courts and in the halls of our state capitol to stop this legislative raid on health care dollars.

Your calls can make the difference.

In the next 24 hours,

please call all of these conference committee members

  • Rep. Dwight Evans—(717) 783-1540
  • Rep. Todd Eachus—(717) 787-2229
  • Sen. Robert Mellow—(717) 787-6481
  • Sen. Dominic Pileggi—(717) 787-4712
  • Sen. Jake Corman—(717) 787-1377

Your message: “I strongly urge you to oppose any proposal that uses my Mcare insurance premiums to balance the state budget.” Be sure to tell them where you practice.

Also, please call and thank Rep. Sam Smith at (717) 787-3845 for having the courage to be the only conferee who opposes using our money to balance the state budget.

Thank you for speaking up to save health care dollars.

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