Summary
The Coalition to Protect Patients' Rights affirms that nothing is more important than a person's health and the best way to improve and enhance an individual's health is for patients and their families, in close consultation with their doctors, to choose the best course of medical treatment for any particular patient. Furthermore, CPPR members believe that nothing should interfere with the private, personal discussions between a doctor, the patient, and the patient's family as they decide that best course of medical treatment.The Coalition was formed to ensure that healthcare reform builds on our best-in-the-world-healthcare that hundreds of millions of Americans enjoy today where patients can choose the health plan, physician and course of treatment that best fits their individual needs. Now that healthcare reform has become law, the Coalition will work to ensure the law - as implemented - does not weaken our nation's healthcare system. In some cases that will mean vigorously defending and supporting parts of the law, with regards to other sections of the law, it will mean working with Members of Congress to improve or repeal them.
The Coalition is dedicated to pursuing a patient-centered and consumer-driven approach to healthcare reform that will improve patient care by:
- Protecting the patient-provider relationship.
- Supporting comparative effectiveness research (CER) policies that strengthen patient and physician decision-making.
- Encouraging continued medical innovation and research.
- Focusing on disease prevention and overall wellness.
- Opposing cuts to Medicare that would impact patients' ability to get care.
- Repealing efforts to limit care patients' receive purely on a cost basis.
- Reducing or eliminating the need for purely defensive medicine by improving or reforming the medical malpractice system.
- Expanding access to affordable healthcare to the uninsured.