Capitol Insight Action Alert: Oct. 1, 2009
Budget Deal Starting to Unravel
Put Lawmakers and the Governor on Notice: Don't Balance the Budget With a Tax on Physicians
Lawmakers are still struggling this week—possibly into the weekend—to cobble together a deal on the state budget. Your calls are part of the public outcry that’s making them sweat and the deal unravel.
Teetering on the edge of the table is more than $100 million of your money paid to the state mandated Mcare Fund for your liability insurance coverage. Diverting your premium dollars to balance the budget is a profound violation of trust—both to physicians and to their patients.
This breach of faith will have repercussions far beyond the Mcare Fund. Imagine trying to recruit young physicians to come to Pennsylvania after they find out Pennsylvania has created, in essence, a “physician tax.”
The Pennsylvania Medical Society is pursuing all avenues in the courts and in the state capitol to stop this legislative raid on health care dollars.
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Please take a few minutes to call these legislators and Gov. Ed Rendell—and if you've already called, call again:
- Gov Ed Rendell—(717) 787-2500
- Sen. Joseph Scarnati, Senate President Pro Tempore—(717) 787-7084
- Rep. Keith McCall, House Speaker—(717) 783-1375
Your message: “Don’t use any of my liability insurance premiums to balance the state budget.” Be sure to tell them where you practice.
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Thank you for speaking up to save health care dollars.
Last Updated: 10/6/2009