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Introduction to Advocacy

Introduction to Advocacy. Emergency Medicine Residents Association Advocacy Week 2011 Created by Alison Haddock, EMRA Legislative Advisor. Objectives. Defining Advocacy Healthcare Crises Health Care Reform Getting Involved. Advocacy. =. Politics. Advocacy. noun.

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Introduction to Advocacy

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  1. Introduction to Advocacy Emergency Medicine Residents Association Advocacy Week 2011 Created by Alison Haddock, EMRA Legislative Advisor

  2. Objectives • Defining Advocacy • Healthcare Crises • Health Care Reform • Getting Involved

  3. Advocacy = Politics

  4. Advocacy noun. the act of supporting an idea or cause.

  5. US!

  6. Advocacy = Every Day • Negotiating with consultants • Aligning resources for our patients • Patient education • Public health efforts • Hospital boards and medical staff meetings • Solutions for crowding and boarding • State Laws • Federal Laws • Reimbursement • Regulatory Issues

  7. Why does all this matter?

  8. Our patients.

  9. Advocacy Physician’s public role: advocacy for and participation in improving the aspects of communities that affect the health of individuals. Gruen RL, Pearson SD, Brennan TA. Physician-Citizens – Public Roles and Professional Obligations. JAMA. 291: 94-98. 2004.

  10. Ourselves. Emtala

  11. We are the safety net. • Average physician = $12,300 in bad debt • Emergency physicians = $138,300

  12. How much does the US spend on health care each year?

  13. $2.5 trillion

  14. From 2000 OECD data

  15. Basis for Health Care Reform • Solutions to our crises • Coverage • Cost • Quality • Popular support for concept of reform

  16. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Past • Kids on parents’ policies until 26yo • No preexisting conditions for kids • State-based high-risk pools • Small business tax-credits • Covering the Medicare “donut hole” • No lifetime benefit limits or recissions • Expanded quality reporting

  17. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Future • “Individual Mandate” in 2014 • Preexisting conditions eliminated for all • 2019 Projections • Cover 60% of the uninsured • Cost ~4% of health expenditures • Cut the deficit by <1%

  18. From “What Will Happen Under Health Reform— and What’s Next?” by the Commonwealth Fund, published in May/June 2010 Columbia Journalism Review.

  19. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): The Future • State insurance exchanges • For individuals and small businesses • Premium subsidies • Regulated benefits • Cost offsets • Cutting Medicare Advantage • Decreased Medicare provider payments • Taxes (tanning salons, high-income Medicare beneficiaries, penalties)

  20. Emergency Medicine and the ACA • Essential Health Benefits Package • Prudent Layperson • EM Research • Regionalization

  21. Many issues remain…

  22. (Un)Sustainable Growth Rate -29.5% • Medicare’s flawed formula for physician reimbursement • Patched 5 times in 2010 • Now stable until… January 1st, 2012

  23. SGR Solutions? • Too expensive to fix! • More than $369.8 billion

  24. And there’s more! • Access to care • Overcrowding and boarding • Workforce shortages • On-call coverage • Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) • The IPAB

  25. Get Involved!

  26. EMRA • 36 years representing residents • 9,000+ members • 33% of ACEP • Health Policy Committee • EMRA-ACEP Health Policy Mini-Fellowship

  27. ACEP • 9-1-1 Legislative Network • Leadership and Advocacy Conference • Ongoing advocacy efforts from the Washington DC Office • ACEP Committees • Federal Governmental Affairs • State Legislative and Regulatory • Medical-Legal

  28. NEMPAC • 2 year election cycle fundraising • Raised $1,090,166 in 2010 Physician PAC Rankings: Orthopedics (2.6M) Anesthesia (2.3M) **AMA (2.0M) Radiologists (1.8M) Emergency Medicine (1.5M) • Give-A-Shift!

  29. Get involved! Give a lecture or journal club on advocacy Donate some of your time or $$ Speak out!

  30. Take-Home Points • Advocacy is a core competency… • Bring it home to your fellow residents! • The healthcare reform process has only just begun… • And we need YOU to reach our goals!!!

  31. Thank you!

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