How CRNA's feel about HR 3200

[RxBoy]

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http://www.aana.com/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=22614

(Thanks Don)

Last line of Paragraph 3 says it all about the way they feel toward us.

 

[coprolalia]

You're going to have to be more specific.

-copro

 

[coprolalia]

Here...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3200:

Find it, link it. Thanks!

-copro

 

[Don8455]

He is referring to the letter from the AANA president Jackie Rowles to House Speaker Pelosi. The link is here:

http://www.aana.com/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=22614

 

[coprolalia]

"We are disappointed that among the most vocal opponents of initiatives to expand coverage are anesthesiologist colleagues who may currently bill for four anesthesia patients' cases simultaneously."

So, are they equally upset when an intensivist physician bills for taking care of and medically directing the care 15 ICU patients simultaneously, despite the fact that the ICU nurse is the one at the bedside instituting and implementing the care plan? How about when a physician runs a clinic with two ARNPs and bills for supervision and medical expertise of the patient care plan of all the patients that come to his/her clinic?

This is classic AANA rhetorical bullsh*t that, on the face of it, may seem to the uninitiated to be logical, but actually has no basis in reality when stripped bare.

Be very, very afraid of the fact that it's politicians, that vast majority of whom are lawyers with no medical training, are in charge of "changing the face of healthcare" in Uh-MUR-ih-cuh. I'm not convinced that they will understand the subtleties and b.s. of such arguments promulgated by a self-serving political activist organization that cares more about trying to fill their pockets than it does in providing the safest, most-effective care under the auspices of a team approach.

Or, maybe, we as physicians should be doing this for free?

-copro

 

[jwk]

Jackie Rowles strikes me as remarkably similar to Nancy Pelosi - TOTALLY out of touch with her constituency except for those on the far left.

Remember that almost 2/3 of CRNA's work in some sort of anesthesia care team practice that will bill 1:3 or 1:4. She doesn't seem to get it that these CRNA's are in those types of practices because they CHOOSE to be there, and that many/most have never and will never CHOOSE to work independently. The AANA needs to be very careful what it wishes for - if their dire predictions about ACT practices come true, thousands of CRNA's will be out of work.

 

[Coastie]

http://www.aana.com/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=22614

(Thanks Don)

Last line of Paragraph 3 says it all about the way they feel toward us.

You guys think I put that stuff into my cartoons for the fun of it? This "healthcare bill" reeks of the stuff the AANA loves: bureaucracy, big government, punishment for physicians....

Of course, the patients suffer the most in the end, but since when has that stopped some people on this issue?

 

[Sandman2009]

JWK -

Refreshing point.

 

[IDBasco]

Boy, I won't put anything past a politician, but you would have to be a ***** not to see the underlying motivation for that organization so nicely laid out. How many times can they mention that they need to be paid or highly valued, etc.? Though, really its those damn doctors that are money hungry.🙄

Not only that but it says in the last paragraph that they bill the same amount to Medicare as a doc. If I were a politician, that would raise my eyebrows. Hmm...non-doctor getting paid the same as a doctor...there's a possible revenue savings opportunity. The ASA needs to point that out.

But hell, I'm in a dream world. Its politics and I'm sure the union sends them lots of money every year. 😴

 

[maceo]

Ill say it again. You wanna solve the problem

Physician Assistant Anesthesia and open up more ANESTHESIOLOGY ASSISTANT SCHOOLS
HOW DO I MAKE IT BLINK? ANYONE KNOW?