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Norman

Norman McSwain MD
Trauma Director, Charity Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Tulane University
New Orleans LA
504 988 5111
norman.mcswain at tulane.edu <mailto:norman.mcswain at tulane.edu> 

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org on behalf of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Fri 7/24/2009 8:17 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: Re: BRAVO to the ACS

Still under discussion.   This was enabling not funding  legislation.   
Contact our congresspersons.    It  is the Principle here that is important.  
This is a pivital point in  health care reform.   Up to this point the
objective has not been  health care reform, but a shift from private medicine to
federalized funding and  control.   As of TODAY, with this leadership,
there has been a shift  in FOCUS NATIONAL, led by the ACS and the AMA to do what
is best for patients,  for quality, for access, and then address the
funding.    There  is already sufficient funding in the existing 3 trillion/year
expenditures in  hard money and in kind contributions to do what everyone
desires.   It  is the governance that is the debate, and as of today it is
being defined by  over riding governing principles, not partisan politics for
power and  control.   

k

In a message dated 7/24/2009 8:13:37 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
nmcswai at tulane.edu writes:

Ken
Is funding for uncompensated patient care included?
Is  the Emergency Care Coordination Center funded?

Norman

Norman  McSwain MD
Trauma Director, Charity Hospital
Professor of Surgery,  Tulane University
New Orleans LA
504 988  5111
norman.mcswain at tulane.edu <mailto:norman.mcswain at tulane.edu> 

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From:  trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org on behalf of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Fri  7/24/2009 7:40 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Cc: brittld at evms.edu;  Redstart at aol.com; KMATTOX at aol.com
Subject: BRAVO to the  ACS

The ACS sent this news brief out this afternoon - WELL DONE  -  I  recommend
that Medical Disaster Response be added to this  and maybe even add
something about Acute Care Surgery  

k

HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES  LANGUAGE ENSURING ACCESS TO  TRAUMA CARE

On July 20, the House Energy and Commerce Committee  approved  an amendment
to H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health  Choices Act of 2009,  which would
expand patient access to emergency  and trauma care. The approved 
amendment,
which was still being  reviewed by the College's congressional affairs
staff at press time, would  regionalize emergency care and shore up the
nation's
trauma centers. The  new language also calls for authorizing the
establishment of  an  Emergency Care Coordination Center, which would serve
as a
centralized  hub  for all urgent care. As noted previously in ACS
NewsScope, the 
regionalization and trauma center language was also included in the  health
care  reform legislation that the Senate Health, Education,  Labor, and
Pensions
Committee approved earlier this month. For more  information, contact
kmcdonald at facs.org .

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