Items Concerning the World of Neurosurgery and Healthcare Reform

America's neurosurgeons strongly support improving our nation's health-care system; however, the AANS and CNS firmly believe that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes far beyond that which is necessary to fix what is broken with the current health-care system. Rather than enacting a carefully targeted set of reforms that would improve access to affordable health insurance and redress a number of deplorable insurance practices, the ACA vastly expands the federal government's role in health-care and fails to address significant problems with the current system. This page is dedicated to items concerning the world of neurosurgery and health-care reform.

Key Resource Links:

• Alliance for Health Reform
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• American Medical Association
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2013

• Neurosurgery Joins the Alliance to Send Support Letter to Sen Cornyn for IPAB Repeal Bill (S. 351) (PDF)
  
  
• AANS/CNS Endorsement Letter for Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act (PDF)
  
  
• Letter to Senator Murkowski discussing the Medicare Patient Empowerment Act (PDF)
  
  
• AANS/CNS 2013 Legislative Agenda (PDF)

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Healthcare Reform Resources

There is a vast list of resources related to healthcare reform on the internet. The following offer key information on the policy options under consideration from a variety of perspectives:

CNS: http://www.cns.org/advocacy/wc/nsHealthcareReform.aspx

Kaiser Family Foundation: http://healthreform.kff.org/

New England Journal of Medicine: http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?query=rthome

American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/health-system-reform.shtml

The White House: http://www.healthreform.gov/

House of Representatives’ Majority Leader: http://www.majorityleader.gov/members/health_care.cfm

House of Representatives Republicans: http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare/resources

Senate Finance Committee: http://finance.senate.gov

Senate Republicans: http://src.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.Home&Issue_id=e2a4adda-fa79-47c0-b7a9-090b98439cfb

Congressional Budget Office: http://www.cbo.gov/