by Ellen Stodola EyeWorld Staff Writer
2014 ASCRS annual meeting officially opens
T
he 2014 ASCRS annual
meeting officially opened
on Saturday with the
Opening General Session.
Edward J. Holland, MD,
Cincinnati, chair of the ASCRS
Program Committee, welcomed
more than 7,000 attendees from
more than 100 countries to the
40th annual meeting. He said that
this would again be an exciting
meeting with unsurpassed anterior
segment education opportunities.
This year, as in past years,
attendees can choose from hundreds
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by Ellen Stodola
EyeWorld Staff Writer
Sen. Paul calls for repeal of ICD-10 and urges
physicians to get involved in the political process
S
en. Rand Paul, MD
(R-KY), was the featured
guest speaker at the
joint ASCRS•ASOA
Government
Relations
Session on Friday. Sen. Paul spoke
to a jam-packed session room about
his objections to the Affordable Care
Act (ACA), SGR, and ICD-10. Sen.
Paul is an ophthalmologist who
also serves on the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions
Committee. He spoke about health-
care policy from his point of view
as a physician serving in Congress.
He has co-sponsored legislation to
provide a viable Medicare private
contracting option and to delay the
implementation of ICD-10, as well
as legislation to repeal the Independ-
ent Payment Advisory Board.
It's a backward way of looking at
healthcare,
he said about the ACA.
"The thing is that we've entrusted
government," Sen. Paul said.
"We think somehow it's going to
be better if government is in charge
of things."
The bottom line is the question
of whether physicians want to help
people. The answer is yes and most
of us do it, he said. To increase the
people that physicians treat, give a
tax credit or tax deduction for seeing
the poor, Sen. Paul said.
of papers, courses, symposia, special
sessions, and an exhibit hall with
the latest technology, Dr. Holland
said.
Following Dr. Holland,
ASCRS outgoing president Eric D.
Donnenfeld, MD, New York,
spoke and passed the reins to
ASCRS incoming president Richard
A. Lewis, MD, Sacramento, Calif.
"This has been a year I will
treasure forever," Dr. Donnenfeld
said. "There are no finer people
than the ophthalmologists,
EyeWorld Daily News • The official ASCRS•ASOA Boston Show Daily
April 27, 2014
Sen. Paul was the featured guest speaker at the ASCRS•ASOA Government
Relations Session on Friday.
Dr. Holland thanks Dr. Donnenfeld for his year of service as ASCRS president.
