If you haven't already, please pay your 2017 dues! 

This is a big year for legislative advocacy. Stay with us to:
* Keep legislation out of the physician-patient relationship and exam room
* Make your voice heard about patient safety issues
* Fight for patient access to high quality health care

And we're building up our Healthy Healer program. Will include:
* Discounts on counseling/coaching
* Mindfulness in Medicine Retreat, April 22-23
* Large event with renowned speaker, November 4

Not sure whether you've paid? 

Last week we asked you to let us know what you thought about Rand Paul's bill to replace Obamacare. A handful of you weighed in. Here's the results:

2 in favor of the bill

5 against the bill

Here's a comment from one of your WCMS Colleagues:

"The plight of the poor will remain unhelped, and once again, the competitive marketplace, which has failed our citizens since the beginning of health insurance, will continue unrestricted." - Anonymous

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See below for this week's opportunity to have your voice heard!

The STOP Act (Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention) Act is legislation aimed at curbing the state's opioid abuse epidemic. We have an opportunity to provide feedback to legislators about making improvements to the bill. What questions or concerns do you have about it?

On March 6, 2017, the House Republican leadership introduced Affordable Care Act repeal and replacement budget reconciliation bills in the Ways and Means (W&M) (summary) and Energy and Commerce (E&C) (summary) committees. The bills, collectively titled the American Health Care Act, are the committees' responses to the instructions they received in the Budget Resolution passed by both houses of Congress in mid-January to prepare budget reconciliation legislation to repeal the ACA.

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It also eliminates the cap on employer-sponsored health insurance tax breaks, which had been in previous draft bills. The Cadillac tax on high-end plans would remain but be further delayed until 2025.

Medicaid would be turned into a block grant program with a per capita cap for each state. States that expanded Medicaid eligibility under the ACA would be forced to freeze extra enrollment and beneficiaries already enrolled could stay on until 2020.

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