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If the Government is asking for another 1 trillion dollars (that is one million times one million dollars), how the Federal Program is saving money is difficult for me to understand.  Well - I am just a docotor, I do not understand numbers. 

Sanjay Gupta

--- On Fri, 7/24/09, McSwain, Norman E Jr. <nmcswai at tulane.edu> wrote:

> From: McSwain, Norman E Jr. <nmcswai at tulane.edu>
> Subject: RE: BRAVO to the ACS
> To: "Trauma-List [TRAUMA.ORG]" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
> Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 7:43 PM
> The change is welcome
>  
> 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>
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 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>
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 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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