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Medicare in Crisis: Keep Your Office Door Open! MEDICARE IN CRISIS: KEEP YOUR OFFICE DOOR OPEN!
Dear Colleague:
Unless you take action, your Medicare payments will be cut 10.6% on July 1, 2008 and then an additional 5% cut in 2009. Many primary care physicians will not be able to keep their office doors open for Medicare recipients.
This ‘unfunded mandate’ that primary care physicians absorb disproportionately in caring for our nation’s poor and elderly simply must be stopped. It is time to take a stand.
Join us in demanding that Congress:
- Immediately stop the upcoming July 1, 2008 and January 1, 2009 cuts
- Declare an 18 month positive payment update and use that time to work on a replacement for the Sustainable Growth Rate which accurately and fairly reflects both the value of primary care medicine and our actual cost of doing business.
All you need to do is:
1) “Speak out”. Talk to your patients about the problem and urge them to join you in speaking out.
2) Write letters to your members of Congress.
3) Submit an op-ed article to your local newspaper(s).
4) Urge your patients to sign a petition to Congress to stop the cuts.
5) Urge your patients to write Congress.
6) Place a poster in your office.
Your help is needed to stop the cuts and keep your office door open!
Sincerely,
Russell Roberts, MD
President - Louisiana Academy Family Physicians
Visit the following helpful links:
http://capitol.aafp.org, www.vote-smart.org, www.acponline.org/advocacy
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