Michael C. Radoiu, an optometrist based in Harrisonburg, Va., and a captain in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps Reserve unit, is a member of the medical team and one of 1,200 personnel aboard the USNS Comfort, off the coast of Haiti. He tells Newsweek about conditions there.
Archive for January, 2010
AOA Update on Health Care Reform – January 22, 2010
January 22, 2010
On Tuesday night, the year-long effort by President Obama and Congressional Democrats to enact their sweeping national health care reform legislation was dealt a serious setback by the election of Scott Brown (R) in the Massachusetts special election called following the death of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D). With their 60 seat Senate majority trimmed by one, Senate Democrats can no longer stop a Republican filibuster of either of the two health overhaul bills (versions approved separately by the Senate and House) that Congress has been working on or even a final merged version.
As of today, the President and Congressional Democratic leaders, who did not expect what they consider an unfavorable result in Massachusetts, have not made a decision about how or when to approach the new situation on Capitol Hill or the endgame of health care reform. It is possible that the President will announce his plans during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress scheduled for Wednesday, January 27th.
AOA announces resignation from NAVCP
January 14, 2010The AOA has formally resigned from the organization that represents vision care plans over divergent views on health care reform. The National Association of Vision Care Plans (NAVCP), which represents the industry’s largest vision care providers, had initiated a lobbying campaign in the summer that was directly at odds with the AOA’s goal of ensuring that optometrists are integrated into the mainstream of medical care. Read the rest of this entry ?
