The Committee begins organizing medical professionals toward patient advocacy.

The Committee earns national attention after viral video of Dr. Rob’s confrontation with with Mike Pence in an Iowa Diner as CMS attempts to undermine Medicaid.

As COVID-19 becomes a crisis, the Committee helps mobilize medical professionals to educate the public and hold politicians accountable for their pandemic response failures.

President Trump & his allies continue to deny the realities of the pandemic, and the Committee makes sure the voting public knows who is responsible for disinformation and reckless public health policy.

The Committee trains and mobilizes physicians for legislative campaigns to pass bold policy reform including state-based public options (CO, NV), prescription drug cost reform (CO), and paid sick leave (NM).

Gov. DeSantis (FL) and Gov. Abbott (TX) exacerbated the worst effects of the pandemic. Medical professionals hold them accountable and celebrate good actors, to the tune of millions of dollars in advertising equivalent value.

Fights over reproductive rights are revived in state legislatures. The Committee focuses on the Texas’s SB 8–a turning point for reproductive rights protections–via mass communications campaigns and produced videos lifting up in-state physicians’ stories. CTP helped sound the alarm for what was to come in other states.

The Committee helps partner organizations in states pass three consumer-oriented reforms: MN’s Frontline Worker Pay, NM’s ACA Easy Enrollment, and MD’s Paid Family & Medical Leave legislation.

Surprises like the leaked decision are why the Committee exists: To be an immediate counterpoint and education vehicle in times of great uncertainty regarding public health and health care. The organization calls on its active membership from previous policy and political fights to jump into action, and does so swiftly.

June 2022
In the 4 days following the Dobbs decision, the Committee holds press conferences with physicians in white coats in 8 states. In a time of great uncertainty, physicians clearly communicate the stakes in their states, and highlight those who are fighting to protect women’s rights, and those who are not.

August - November 2022 States across the country are staring down abortion bans, archaic laws, and radical legislatures/executives who seek to rollback reproductive rights. The Committee uses its megaphone and paid media apparatus to hold extremist politicians accountable.

Campaigns team works with lawyers and 500+ physicians to draft, distribute, and submit an amicus brief to the Michigan Supreme Court in support of Gov. Whitmer’s lawsuit challenging the 1931 abortion ban.

Staff and volunteer physician members reach millions of voters through paid media campaigns, amplifying medical professionals through direct voter contact texts, digital advertising, and direct mail campaigns.

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