Yesterday, President Obama signed the SGR Fix Bill (MedPage Article) into law. What this bill does, among many other things, is save the EMS industry from a potential 3% loss on reimbursement rates for 2011. It also ensured that doctors would not take a 25% cut in 2011. Through diligence in Washington by many EMS and health care related groups we are all able to weather the budget storm that will continue to ravage the entire health care system due to the implementation of "Obama-care".
This is a band-aid on the wound that is the national health plan. Until the SGR is truly fixed we will continue this cycle every year. I implore every person to reach out to our senators and representatives to help them understand that the system is just that, a system. A shortfall in any one area will have a dramatic effect on the system and will result in failures that we can only estimate.
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