Hospitals, Doctors Get Conservatives’ Push for Elective Care

Conservative activists are working with a coalition of health professionals to try to pressure governors and federal lawmakers to let medical practices and hospitals perform more elective and non-emergency services, potentially speeding up the reopening of the broader health-care industry.

Dozens of doctors from around the country Wednesday will announce the start of A Doctor A Day, a letter-writing and lobbying campaign consisting of health-care providers who want states to loosen states’ restrictions on the services they can provide.

Their effort centers on a public health message that runs contrary to what many experts have said in recent weeks: Americans ...