Monday, November 12, 2007

Eye Doctors alive and well

Ophthalmologists spent the first 20 minutes of their annual meeting in New Orleans talking about politics—not eyes. Powerpoint slides outlined the group's lobbying efforts to stop the 10.1 percent fee cut in medicare legislation pending before the United States Senate.


Who can blame them though? These physicians went to college and medical school and did residencies and fellowships--all to have the federal government threaten yet another cut to services they provide for older Americans in particular: cataract surgery, AMD treatment, and Glaucoma.


They quickly moved on to the latest procedures, drugs, and experiments that will prevent blindness, and help Americans be able to see better and longer: something they would rather be doing than lobbying the US Congress.




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