What We're About

The purpose of the new NRCC Physicians' Council for Responsible Reform is to ensure that health care reform actually improves and not undermines what is in fact the highest quality health care in the world. America, after all, has the best doctors, hospitals and medical research in the world, with Americans receiving 60% of all Nobel Prizes in Medicine since 1980.

In England, 57% of patients who develop prostate cancer die vs. only 19% in America. In England and New Zealand, breast cancer kills 47% of its victims vs. only 25% in America.

Yet American health care does need improving. Costs are too high. Too many people are uninsured. Insurance is too costly and bureaucratic. And issues such as billing inefficiencies, malpractice insurance costs, and mountains of paperwork are driving doctors out of the profession when we are already suffering a severe shortage of primary care physicians.

But we believe that putting Washington politicians in control and rationing, nationalizing, or bureaucratizing medicine - will make things worse, not better. The Physicians' Council for Responsible Reform has seven basic mandates, which are to:

  1. Clarify the real problems in American health care, devoid of demagoguery, scare tactics, and politicking.
  2. Expose the faults, dangers, and inadequacies of the Democrat health care bill, including the very real threat of government bureaucrats intervening more and more in the doctor-patient relationship.
  3. Offer common sense solutions to the real problems faced by health care practitioners, including such vital but often overlooked measures as comprehensive medical liability reform, improving health savings accounts, and serious tax incentives for purchasing health insurance.
  4. Promote tort reform and address the problems inherent in the medical liability system that contribute to rising health care costs and force doctors to practice "defensive" medicine.
  5. Fight to defeat Members of Congress who supported "ObamaCare" in the upcoming 2010 elections and work to get more physicians elected to Congress.
  6. Provide Washington D.C. decision makers with real world, firsthand true stories about health care challenges and success stories.
  7. Educate the public by reminding voters that the American Health Care System provides the highest quality medical care in the world.


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