ATLANTA, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR), a leading coalition of over 230,000 medical specialists dedicated to national medical liability reform, launched an aggressive advocacy campaign in the state of Georgia today, informing its citizens about the growing access- to-healthcare crisis that is having a negative effect on the state's well- being and its economic future.
The Protect Patients Now in Georgia campaign will consist of a 30-minute newsmagazine that will begin airing this week on both network and cable television. The newsmagazine takes an in-depth look at the access-to- healthcare crisis affecting Georgia. Viewers will hear and see first-hand from doctors and patients about how fragile Georgia's healthcare system really is today.
Other components of the campaign will include print and radio ads, directly targeting those who can change the course of Georgia's healthcare system, the candidates from Georgia for U.S. Senate. The ads will be in complete compliance with the new campaign finance laws, which means that they cannot start running until after the Republican and Democrat primaries on July 20, 2004.
The campaign's main objective is to advocate the passage of national medical liability reform, which has passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is supported by President George W. Bush but is currently blocked in the U.S. Senate by a handful of votes -- votes that prevent any form of discussion about medical liability reform on the floor of what was once America's most respected national legislative body.
The lack of movement in the U.S. Senate and the blocking of debate by Democratic Senators clearly indicates to DMLR, the citizens of Georgia and the other 19 states facing an access-to-healthcare crisis that the National Democratic party will continue to allow the financial influence of greedy personal injury lawyers to supercede the rights and needs of the average American healthcare patient-patients they often claim to protect.
DMLR will not falter in its effort to inform the entire state of Georgia about the access-to-healthcare crisis they are facing. Without meaningful medical liability reform, the citizens of Georgia will continue to suffer as patients of a healthcare system being destroyed by greedy personal injury lawyers, and at the end of the day, we are all patients.
DMLR is a coalition of over 230,000 specialty physicians dedicated to the passage of national medical liability reform that is currently being stalled in the U.S. Senate. To learn more about the DMLR campaign, please log on to: http://www.protectpatientsnow.org/.
Doctors for Medical Liability ReformCONTACT: Winn Maddrey, Media Relations of Protect Patients Now inGeorgia, +1-877-204-5678; Bill Powers or Jason Kemp, both of DMLR NationalPress Office, +1-703-299-0557
Web site: http://www.protectpatientsnow.org/