Z-Pac Update

No Time for Complacency

Richard O’Flynn, MD, FASA

Chairman of ZPAC

The new legislative session is underway in Harrisburg. Very soon, lawmakers will make important decisions affecting your practice of medicine. The success of our specialty in Pennsylvania is a direct result of the success of our advocacy efforts in Harrisburg. PSA works closely with Z- PAC, your registered political action committee.

Political action means seeking out legislators who understand what we do and who are willing to listen to the needs and opinions we hold. Through Z-PAC, we support lawmakers who will make a difference in our issues — issues like ensuring that Pennsylvania retains physician oversight of the administration of anesthesia. Our profession, your livelihood, faces coordinated attacks by various parties who wish to promote the expansion of the scope of practice of nurses. They’ve been emboldened by the Federal and State government and are well-funded and organized.

Z-PAC is your voice in Harrisburg. The PAC exists to support those members of the General Assembly who believe in what you do and who work to advance PSA’s views on important patient safety and medical practice issues. We need to accept zero tolerance for lack of support for physician advocacy efforts and zero tolerance for complacency. Too many of our colleagues are content to sit back and let a few motivated souls fight the fight. A few voices cannot have the impact that all of us will have speaking out together. Z-PAC gives us a unified voice on our issues and concerns.

Your support is vital to our success. Do this today. You can make your donation to Z-PAC online at

www.psanes.org or, better yet, take out your phone and scan the QR code to be taken to the Z-PAC page to contribute.

Working together, we will make a difference—a BIG difference for our patients and for our practices.