Our Story

The Committee to Protect Health Care has grown from a small group of physicians who wanted to get more involved politically involved to the most effective advocacy organization for doctors to advocate for better health care policies for their patients and their communities, and build power through electoral victory.

Physicians Building Power for Better Health Care via Policy and Politics

January 2019 - January 2020
Building Power

The Committee begins organizing doctors toward patient advocacy.

February 2020
National Attention

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

March - August 2020
Pandemic Education

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

September 2020 - January 2021
Pandemic Accountability

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.

January - May 2021
Policy Reform Campaigns

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).

June - August 2021
Pandemic Villians

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

September - December 2021
Reproductive Rights Battle Begins

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.

January - April 2022
Policy Reform Campaigns

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.

May 2022
Roe Leak Media Blitz

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
Dobbs Decision Media Blitz

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
Drumbeat Communications

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.

September 2022
Michigan Legal Strategy

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.

October - November 2022
Paid Issue Communications

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.

January - December 2023
Policy Reform Campaigns

The Committee works with partner organizations nationwide to pass state policies expanding access to care and lowering costs, including reproductive freedom protections, paid family and medical leave, prescription drug affordability boards, and more.

April 2023
State Supreme Court Race Attention
Members in Wisconsin advocate for the election of Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, a champion for reproductive freedom, flipping the court.
August - December 2023
Federal Policy Advocacy
The Committee begins our first federal policy campaign to pass site-neutral payment reform.
2024

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