As you know, the ACC has partnered with the Texas Medical Association (TMA) on a petition drive to fight the flawed SGRrrr and preserve patient access. The idea is to obtain one million patient signatures to petitions to Congress to get the SGRrrr fixed. The specific task is to get these materials available in every doctor’s office for patients to see, read and voluntarily pursue. So far, nearly 60,000 signatures have been obtained through the campaign.

We were the first specialty society to partner with the TMA on this campaign, and we continue to work toward the goal of gathering one million signatures from health care providers and their patients to share with Congress and the president. I encourage you to sign the online petition today if you haven’t done it yet! Hopefully all ACC Chapters will engage in the effort -- Colorado is already going big time. 

Congress’ leaders (Reid and Pelosi) have stated they want to get a long term SGR fix negotiated before the Memorial Day recess at the end of May. That is only 6 weeks away.  I know the fatigue level is high, but we need to stay with it so we can get this mess behind us. Join in the million person signature campaign please.

*** Image from Flickr (Johan Jonsson). *** 

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