P.R.I.D.E.
Practice Rights Immediate Defense Effort
2005 Campaign Effort
From: FAPA Board of Directors
To: All Physician Assistants
Again this next year, Florida Physician/Physician Assistant teams will face unprecedented threats to our professional integrity and our ability to practice. The future of our profession in Florida is once again at stake in the upcoming legislative session as never before.
Please note these funds do NOT go to the Political Action Committee. They go directly to a fund to pay for the Public Relations Campaign and no other purpose. Help us to help you. Make sure you visit your legislator while they are home this summer and fall. Work in their campaigns and contribute money to them but just make sure they know who you are and what you do.
See the Legislative Update thru the link on the website homepage to get the most up to date information on past 2004 legislative issues.
What FAPA is doing in the behalf of all PAs:
We will continue an aggressive communications and lobbying campaign to defeat these threats and protect our practice rights. We have engaged the services of professional lobbying and public relations professionals with a proven track record of excellent results. But we cannot conduct this fight without your help. You have a lot invested in your education and your profession.
Make an investment today to ensure that you continue to have the right to practice with your physician!!!
Click on the link below and make your contribution online today. And sign up to be part of the lobbying force.
If you are a PA who is not licensed in Florida, these issues may affect other states eventually if they succeed here. Help us to protect practice rights of Physician/PA Teams everywhere and make your donation today! The derms will be back in force next year to once again try and achieve their goal of limiting PAs in the specialty of dermatology. We will again oppose any such efforts.
The FMGs will attempt to get licensure through legislative means this year. FAPA will oppose any such effort that would allow for licensure of anyone or group outside of the current requirements by Florida statutes. This may require legal action which could be costly. Part of the PRIDE funds may be needed to pay costs above that provided by the current FAPA budget.
This is to protect not only the integrity of the PA profession, but more importantly we need to protect the health and welfare of Florida citizens by ensuring that the laws are enforced as they are written to prevent unqualified providers from being licensed as a physician assistant in Florida. We have no problem with anyone obtaining a license to practice as a physician assistant as long as they fulfill the requirements of current law.
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