We're pleased to offer you this great opportunity to join or re-join organized medicine. First-time members pay just $248.75 in dues for the remainder of 2008. Former members pay just $497.50. By reinforcing the membership base, our unified voice will make a more significant impact on the healthcare debate at the local, state and national levels. We cannot remain idle. We must fight to preserve and enhance the core relationship in healthcare-that between doctor and patient.

Please join today and encourage your colleagues to join. OCMA/CMA offers preferential discounts on products and services beneficial to doctors and continually enhances member benefits. Recent advocacy efforts include a strong and multi-pronged opposition to the Medi-Cal cuts; actions against health insurance company abuses, which resulted in fines levied and legislative bills proposed; stopping non-physicians from practicing medicine; and protecting our emergency and trauma systems by fighting for fair payment to doctors. Become a part of the transformation from a traditional advocacy association to an organization that, in the words of CMA CEO Joe Dunn, "acquires, maintains and wields power." Together we are stronger.