Federal Initiatives

Resources

• FTC Responds to CPR (6/14/12) [pdf]
  The FTC assures CPR that it continues to closely monitor state legislation and regulations that could inhibit competition among health care providers and limit choices for health care consumers in this letter.
• CPR Supports FTC (4/25/12) [pdf]
  CPR member organizations expressed their support for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent efforts to promote competition, access and choice in healthcare in a letter to the FTC chairman.
• CPR Comments to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (3/15/12)[pdf]
  CPR has advised the new institute, created to commission research to help patients and their health care providers make more informed decisions, to examine what types of providers will play a role in providing treatments that lead to quality outcomes. CPR’s comments were submitted for PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and Initial Research Agenda.
  
  
• CPR has joined Partnership for Patients (7/11/2011)
• CPR letter to President Obama emphasizing use of term "health care professional" rather than "doctor" (2/23/10) [pdf]
• Letter to President Obama – CPR members are critical to movement to improve health care (5/28/09) [pdf]