http://www.aoa.org/documents/HCR-Outline.pdf
http://www.aoa.org/documents/faqs.pdf
If you’re confused as I am about healthcare reform and how it may affect optometry, the AOA provides some very useful information. Click on both of the links above to learn more!
Here is the AOA president’s blog as well. http://newsfromaoa.org/
No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, it can be universally agreed that the Harkin Amendment to the recently signed Healthcare law is a positive for optometry. Whether or not the entire bill is positive for optometry is debatable and I don’t know enough to make any comments on it.
Harkin:
“A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall not discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider’s license or certification under applicable State law.”
Time will tell the impact on optometry.