Dear Congressmen Gingrey and Cuellar:
On behalf of the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA), we would like to thank you for
sponsoring the Standard of Care Protection Act (H.R. 1473). Please know that the HCLA stands
firmly behind this legislation.
As you are aware, the HCLA is a national advocacy coalition of associations and businesses
representing doctors, dentists, allied health care providers, hospitals, health care liability insurers,
employers, and health care consumers. We are dedicated to reforming our medical liability system
to increase patient safety, ensure that injured patients are compensated quickly and fairly, improve
provider-patient communications, and foster an environment for affordable and accessible medical
liability insurance. The broad alliance which makes up the HCLA ensures that we advocate for
solutions to our medical liability problems that are designed to have the most comprehensive
benefits to the entire health care community.
We are pleased to be able to endorse H.R. 1473, the Standard of Care Protection Act. This
legislation will help ensure that provisions of law regarding federal health care programs are not
used, outside their intended purpose, to create new standards of care for medical liability lawsuits.
With so many changes occurring in the health care system, many people have concerns that
misinterpretations of federal rules and regulations could result in new, and unwarranted, liability
exposures. This legislation will help alleviate those concerns amongst health care providers, and
will reassure patients that steps have been taken to ensure that their access to care is not
inadvertently limited.
We greatly appreciate your efforts to bring the Standard of Care Protection Act forward, and the
HCLA stands ready to help you advance this bill through the House and Senate.
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