San Diego County Medical Society
2006 IN 2006, WITH MANY SAN DIEGO COUNTY PHYSICIAN PRACTICES NEARING COLLAPSE under the burden of a broken healthcare financing system, and with the number of uninsured and underinsured patients across the nation rising further still, the U.S. healthcare system continued its decade-long march back to the center of the political stage. In early 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger and other state legislators, both Democratic and Republican, put forth reform proposals to address these and other healthcare challenges. As the discussions around healthcare reform in California take shape in 2007, and as growing national attention is drawn to the issue with the 2008 presidential election, physicians in San Diego County, across California, and in every state in the nation must speak with a united voice to ensure the viability of our practices and the health of our patients. No one is better positioned to address the larger systemic problems facing healthcare today than physicians speaking as one while working closely with their elected representatives. The San Diego County Medical Society (SDCMS) and the California Medical Association (CMA) will continue to lead the discussion in California to ensure that physicians are well represented and that our interests and the interests of our patients are protected. SDCMS works hard on behalf of our member physicians and their office staffs by ADVOCATING for physicians locally, in Sacramento, and in Washington, DC, by offering to our members tangible member BENEFITS, by COMMUNICATING to our members what they need to know when they need to know it in order to save them time and money, and by ENGAGING our members in the issues so that they can be part of the solution! Working together, SDCMS physicians are “Physicians United for a Healthy San Diego.�