Join the CIR Rapid Response Team
In this economy, physicians can't afford to ignore politics.
This year, Congress will take action on implementing the new health care reform, Medicaid funding, medical school debt, labor law, and many other issues that impact residents and their patients. When one of the issues comes up for a vote, we want to make sure legislators hear our voices immediately on behalf of our patients and ourselves.
To make sure CIR is heard on these issues, we’re putting together a team of rapid responders.
What does it mean to be a rapid responder?
1.) CIR keep in touch with you on developments relating to health care funding and other issues important to CIR through periodic email updates.
2.) Every so often, when a bill is pending in Congress or your state legislature, we will send you an “action alert” by phone, email or text -- whichever is the best way to reach you.
3.) We’ll ask you to write or call your members of Congress, write a letter to the editor, or submit a story about your patients that we can use in meeting with elected officials. This will be a simple action that won’t take more than five minutes of your time, and will be easy to do through the CIR Web site. But time will be of the essence, so you'll need to respond that day.
4.) We’ll then ask you to reach out to FIVE colleagues and ask them to do the same thing. (You don’t have to ask the same five people each time you receive an action alert.) Ask them to let you know when they’ve completed the action.
5.) Then report back to us and let us know how successful you and your colleagues were -- it’s just that easy.