Doctor Patient Alliance: Thanks for Helping Asbestos Cancer Patients  (2/19/06)

Dear Senator Durbin:

On behalf of the Doctor Patient Alliance for Reasonable Asbestos Policy, we want to thank you for your help in defeating SB 852 on the budget point of order.  We support the effort to provide swift and fair compensation to patients suffering from serious asbestos diseases, such as mesothelioma.  However, the asbestos trust fund bill, as drafted, contained too many fatal flaws.  More...

Mesothelioma Medical Experts Oppose Asbestos Trust Fund, Saying FAIR Act Hurts More than Helps  (2/9/06)

Press Release February 9, 2006
The Doctor-Patient Alliance for Responsible Asbestos Policy today repeated its call on the U.S. Senate to cure fatal flaws in the proposed Asbestos Trust Fund bill (SB 852). More...

Doctor-Patient Alliance Speaks Out Against Unfair/Arbitrary/Unworkable Bail Out Bill! (7/19/05)

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8 our 10 Doctors Agree the Fair Act is bad for patients.  Unfortunately, the two doctors who don't agree are Senator Frist and Senator Coburn. More...

Talking Points on the FAIR Act (S. 852) and the Position of the Doctor-Patient Alliance (7/19/05)

On May 26th, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved S. 852 by a vote of 13-5, with all five votes against the measure cast by Democrats on the Committee. Senator Specter has indicated that he would like to bring the bill to the Senate Floor in July. However, it is uncertain whether he will be granted Floor time by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.  More...

Read this!  This policy treatise was sent to all 100 members of the US Senate. (7/1/05)

Policy Paper
We are concerned citizens, an alliance of doctors and patients, brought together by our mission to defeat mesothelioma as a life-ending disease.  We are intimately familiar with the financial, medical, physical and psychological hardships to which mesothelioma patients and their families are subjected.  More...

Breaking Press Release, June 30, 2005: Call on Congress to Tailor Awards to Damages, Compensate Swiftly and Commit to Increased Funding for Research.   "....Awards to meso patients and medical research funding are tragically trivial."  (7/1/05)

Press Release June 30, 2005
An alliance of mesothelioma patients and 34 doctors nationwide who treat them called on each member of the U.S. Senate today to reform serious flaws in the proposed asbestos trust fund bill (SB 852)  More...

Click Here to view a copy of the June 30, 2005 letter sent to members of the US Senate signed by member of the Doctor-Patient Alliance. (7/1/05)

For the first time ever, doctors and patients have collaborated in the effort to improve our litigation system, improve cancer research, and focus the attention on the unique damages that mesothelioma patients must endure.  The 10 page policy paper is authored by The Doctor-Patient Alliance for Responsible Asbestos Cancer Policy. More...

Click here to see the copy of the letter sent to Sen. Coburn on June 30, 2005