PAL Network

Physician Advocacy Liaison Network
PAL Network
What the PAL Network Program Does?

In the light of the urgent need for increased local physician activism, MSSNY and MSSNYPAC relaunched our Political Action Liaison Network Program as a powerful grassroots infrastructure tool to increase physicians’ contacts with their local legislators. The main goal is to increase the political visibility and power of the medicine profession as it strives to ensure access to high quality healthcare for the citizens of New York. Our main challenge is to coordinate this grassroots effort with MSSNYPAC under the umbrella of MSSNY in concert with the County Medical Societies. Joining PAL Network Program is your way of becoming a key part of this important mission.

What Are PAL Responsibilities?
  • Attend policy meetings at legislative district office scheduled at the request of the County Medical Society or MSSNY.
  • Attend programs to stay updated on legislative issues and grassroots activities.
  • Participate in our grassroots program by attending local political events, sponsored by the campaigns for State Assemblypersons and Senators, as well as events that may be sponsored in part by MSSNYPAC.
  • Enlist other members to support our action plans and mobilize them to action by utilizing a peer-to-peer promotion.
  • Join and promote MSSNYPAC.
A Message From Two PALs

By signing up for PAL several years ago, we made a commitment to support the MSSNY effort to increase physician participation in the political process. A few weeks ago, as part of the re-launched Political Action Liaison Network Program (PAL), we attended a fundraising event for the Senate Republican Campaign Committee in Saratoga, where we both practice. We met Senators from throughout the state, including several who were patients and/or acquaintances of our MSSNY colleagues. It was an enjoyable evening, marked by casual conversations and an occasional venture into political discussion. The main PAL Network Program’s goal is to simply have face-to-face interaction between physicians and elected officials who oversee the laws and regulations that directly impact us and patients we treat. A very simple, yet very important mission. This is important because legislators need to have heard the voices of their physicians/constituents when it comes time to cast their votes for any piece of legislation that impacts our profession and our patients.

Please join us. Support MSSNYPAC, be available to occasionally attend political events, and be willing to contact your local representatives to help communicate our positions on key legislative issues. In so doing, you will be doing your part to protect physicians from unwarranted government interference with our practices and to support efforts to improve the health of all New Yorkers.

Become a PAL today. We need you.

Respectfully,

Gregory Pinto, MD, MSSNY Treasurer and PAL (Fourth District, Saratoga County)
Natalie Adler, MD, MSSNY Councilor and PAL (Fourth District, Saratoga County)

What Needs to Be Done First?

The first step is to update the data of our PALs Network. We need to indicate who is still an active PAL and who would like to become one. Please fill out the sign-up form that is enclosed below.

We must mobilize physicians to better assure the enactment of favorable legislation and the defeat of proposals that will adversely impact the care that you provide to your patients.  We must make certain that our elected officials remain committed to championing the issues that matter most to MSSNY members and their patients.

Keep in mind, there has never been a greater need for physicians to become active.  With so many changes, on both Federal and State levels, occurring in our health care system, and opposition interests seeking to marginalize the physician’s role as leader of the health care team, we must make up for it with an overwhelming presence via grassroots activity that will command the attention of elected officials throughout the state and nationwide.

You can make a difference. Protect the profession and your patients. Join PAL Network today.

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