Greetings Fellow Missouri / ACA Members. It’s time to exercise some team work for the good of the order. Below you will find important information pertaining to chiropractic care and our military establishment. Please take the time and action to help our profession. Thanking you in advance. Respectfully, Gary L. Carver, DC Missouri / ACA Delegate. Dear Colleagues, We spend countless hours helping our patients that often we don’t take any time to help ourselves. Here’s a chance to do something for our profession. And as we know, the stronger our profession becomes, the more profitable our practices will be. SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE ACTION NEEDED – Ensure that our nation’s veterans have unimpeded access to chiropractic With the recent U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on S. 422, the committee is poised to soon consider this legislation which directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to expand the number of sites where the services provided by a Doctor of Chiropractic are available. S. 422, the Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), mirrors House legislation in calling for the VA to phase in the essential services provided by doctors of chiropractic to all major VA medical facilities over the next several years. Why is this important? VA data (Analysis of VA Health Care Utilization Among Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Veterans) cite “diseases of Musculoskeletal System/Connective System,” as the number one ailment of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans accessing VA treatment. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Contact your Senators via ACA’s ChiroVoice Legislative Action Center network and urge them to cosponsor S. 422. The more cosponsors we get on S. 422, the greater the likelihood of its success. Is your Senator currently a cosponsor? Below are current (June 6, 2013) cosponsors of S. 422. These Senators do not need to be contacted. Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ACT NOW! The letter is already written. Simply type in your zip code to identify the senators for your state; add in your contact information and you’re done! A couple mouse clicks of your time is all that is needed to ensure that our brave men and women who have served our country have the access to the services of a Doctor of Chiropractic … services they need and deserve. P.S. Membership means more when it comes from a peer. Tell a colleague about ACA and ask them to join by sending them here: acatoday.org/join. ACA invites you to visit our Online Store, ShopACA New educational and clinical products are frequently being added to support you, your patients and your business. Visit today!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:48:01 +0000
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