Resources for Providers

Messaging for Providers

• The provider's voice for reform: Tips for speaking from a doctor/nurse perspective
• Presentation: Tips for doctors talking on health reform
• Narrative: Always start with a narrative – adapt this narrative and use it as your “stump speech”; hang other arguments on it
• Patient flyer template: This flyer makes the positive case for reform - edit and distribute in your waiting room
• Patient flyers countering anti-reform attacks from National Physicians Alliance and Doctors for America: Print and distribute in your waiting room

Issue Areas

• Comparative effectiveness research
• System change
• Medicaid expansion
• Seniors, children and women
• Cost of doing nothing
• Rural health