| When: | Back to Calendar July 2, 2012 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Where: | DPMA SCOTUS ruling conference call |
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Doc Squad members are invited to participate. You simply need to RSVP.
RSVPs can be emailed to Leslie@doctorsandpatients.org
DPMA will be hosting a SCOTUS ruling conference call on Tuesday, July 2nd at 2:00 pm ET. The call will focus on the ruling, and provide you perspective on how it impacts medical freedom and the doctor-patient relationship. Mark your calendars now – more details will be available later this month.
Supreme Court & PPACA:
When Can We Expect A Ruling?
When Can We Expect A Ruling?
We’re all speculating on the timing of the SCOTUS ruling on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Despite the rumors, Supreme Court decisions – both outcomes and timing – are not leaked. While certainly this case could prove the exception, the Court’s history is to be air tight before rulings. Practically speaking, SCOTUS has a number of decisions on other cases to get through – cases heard before PPACA, so it’s unlikely that the ruling will be released early.So – where does that leave us? Most likely the court will release their opinion at 10 am on Monday, June 25th. Other potential dates are June 28th and June 21st.
White House “Allies” Plans to Express Outrage
“Health Care for America NOW” – proponents for single-payer health care in the U.S. and vocal proponents of President Obama’s PPACA law, have sent out the marching orders for their members response to the Court’s upcoming ruling. (This group was the leading organizer of t-shirt-wearing, sign-carrying paid demonstrators to the Supreme Court steps in March.)Demonstrators have be told to express their outrage via events/demonstrations at state capitols, hospital emergency rooms, senior centers, insurance company offices and offices of Members of Congress who voted AGAINST the PPACA.
We Need YOU to Speak Out After the Ruling
The second the ruling becomes public, the press will be clamoring to hear from the public – particularly doctors. If you are in the medical profession, and would like to be included on a list of contacts willing to speak to the media – please emailleslie@doctorsandpatients.org. Also, everyone can prepare to call radio talk shows, write letters to editor and post blog comments.
Join the National Conference Call on July 2, 2 pm ET
DPMA will be hosting a SCOTUS ruling conference call on Tuesday, July 2nd at 2:00 pm ET. The call will focus on the ruling, and provide you perspective on how it impacts medical freedom and the doctor-patient relationship. Mark your calendars now – more details will be available later this month.
House to take 30th Vote to Repeal PPACA
Tax on Pacemakers & Braces
The House is expected to vote on H.R. 436, the “Protect Medical Innovation Act” next week. The bill repeals the 2.3% tax on medical device manufacturers found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (aka “Obamacare”) law. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, this tax increase will sap $29 billion from job creators over the next decade and will add higher costs passed along to veterans with prosthetics, seniors with pacemakers and children with braces. The bill is sponsored by 239 member of the house, including 10 democrats. This vote will be the House’s 30th to repeal all and/or parts of PPACA. The Senate has not had any votes on PPACA repeal.In addition to H.R. 436, The House Ways and Means Committee today marked up other pieces of legislation which repeal PPACA, including:
- Medical cabinet tax (H.R. 5842) which prevents owners of health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) from using these accounts to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines. This is a $4 billion direct tax increase on families making less than $250,000 per year, something that President Obama said repeatedly he would not do.
- HSA Improvement Act (H.R. 5858). which would: expand the Savers’ Credit to HSA contributions; allow for HSA-qualified distributions to pay for medical expenses incurred after an HSA-qualified insurance plan was obtained but before the establishment of an HSA; allow both spouses over age 55 to make “catch-up” contributions to an HSA; allow those who receive Veterans’ Administration benefits for a service-related industry to retain their HSA contribution eligibility, and permit qualified HSA distributions for post-55 early retirees to pay for health insurance premiums for their former employer’s health plan.
- FSA rollover (H.R. 1004)which would permit health FSA plans to distribute unused FSA dollars as wages to employees in the subsequent year. Under current law, any unused balance reverts back to the employer and is lost to the employee.
DPMA supports all of the above pieces of legislation, as vehicles which enable patient empowerment and control over the health care spending for themselves and their families.
We Need Your Stories
DPMA is collecting your stories
DPMA is collecting your stories
Have you submitted a story yet? We need to hear from you. DPMA is collecting “Stories from the frontlines” from both medical professionals AND patients about problems with the system – or what is working.
If you are a medical professional - please submit here: http://doctorsandpatients.wufoo.com/forms/tell-us-your-story-about-the-medical-system/
If you are a patient - share your perspective here: http://doctorsandpatients.wufoo.com/forms/share-your-stories-of-the-medical-system/
If you are a patient - share your perspective here: http://doctorsandpatients.wufoo.com/forms/share-your-stories-of-the-medical-system/
For example, this week we’ve heard from a lot of doctors who have “Patient-Doctor-Direct” (P3)®practices. They report happy patients and happy doctors. Others are telling us about problems with wait times for appointments with their health care plans.
This is your chance to sound off about what’s working and what’s not!
Sincerely,
Mark Schiller, MD, Co-Founder
mark@DoctorsAndPatients.org
Kathryn Serkes, Co-Founder
kathryn@DoctorsAndPatients.org
DPMA is an organization of medical professionals AND patients together with one united message and purpose – medical freedom. DPMA believes the key to a successful patient-doctor relationship is direct communication as active partners in health care. Learn more at www.DoctorsAndPatients.org.