Protect Patients Now has a crucial opportunity to include medical liability reforms in a deficit reduction package and preserve patient access to care while also achieving billions of dollars in cost savings.

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will meet several times within the next month to find $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction savings to be undertaken over a ten‐year period, and send their recommendations to Congress for a vote by the end of the year.

As determined by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, enacting comprehensive medical liability reforms will provide $62.4 billion in budget savings over 10 years, and therefore help the Committee reach its deficit reduction goals.

The HCLA supports the inclusion of comprehensive medical liability reforms in the Committee’s final recommendation to Congress, and recently sent a letter signed by 31 of its member organizations to Committee leaders. Click here to read the HCLA’s letter.

HCLA and Protect Patients Now urge our grassroots supporters to bring this urgent message to the twelve members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.  

Click here to Contact Congress nowand ask the Committee members to vote for meaningful reforms that will not only benefit patients and health care providers, but help resolve our nation’s fiscal crisis.  With your support, we can reduce the national deficit, put an end to medical lawsuit abuse, and safeguard patient access to vital medical services. Thank you for your continued support!

Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction

Democrats                                                      Republicans

Senator Patty Murray (WA)                                    Senator Jon Kyl (AZ)
Senator Max Baucus (MT)                           Senator Rob Portman (OH)
Senator John Kerry (MA)                             Senator Pat Toomey (PA)
Representative Xavier Becerra (CA)           Representative Jeb Hensarling (TX)
Representative Jim Clyburn (SC)                Representative Fred Upton (MI)
Representative Chris Van Hollen (MD)      Representative Dave Camp (MI)