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Activate your political voice!
The Michigan Doctors’ Political Action Committee (MDPAC) is
the political arm of the Michigan State Medical Society.
It is a bipartisan political action committee made up of physicians, their families, residents, medical students and others interested in making a positive contribution to the medical profession through the political process. MDPAC supports pro-medicine candidates running for political office in Michigan.
Physician engagement is essential to the success of a pro-medicine legislature. Current and potential lawmakers want and need to hear from professionals in the field of medicine. Through MDPAC, you will activate your voice on the things most important to Michigan physicians.
Get started today at MDPAC.org
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Five Reasons to BACK the PAC
The Michigan Doctors’ Political Action Committee (MDPAC) builds and maintains strong relationships with lawmakers, as well as candi- dates running for political office.
As the face of physicians, MDPAC bring medical knowledge into discussions with political decision makers.
For more than three decades, MDPAC has mounted successful lobbying efforts on behalf of physicians.
For example... MDPAC protects and strengthens tort reform, stopped the physician’s tax, and has helped to stop the expansion of a non-physician’s scope of practice.
MDPAC has power, prestige and respect! If you wake your sleeping giant, MDPAC could make rapid, positive change for physicians and patients. It could ease administrative pressures with the current prior authorization process, save you money and time on your Maintenance of Certification, and advance public health issues.
Trial lawyers, insurance companies, and other political opponents raise massive sums of money.
Medicine’s friends, through MDPAC, must dig deeper to raise equivalent or greater amounts of funds to advance Michigan physician’s agenda.
The current political landscape is uncertain.
Only through a well-funded, unified voice will physicians and their patients’ interests be heard. MDPAC is that voice.
Get your voice heard by contributing today at MDPAC.org