Vision Loss Community Delivers Powerful Health Care Reform Message to Law Makers

Posted by Mark Richert on 6/8/2009 3:59:24 PM

Guest Blogger, Mark Richert, Director, Public Policy

Last week, more than 100 international, national, and community-based organizations representing, serving, and advocating for people living with vision loss joined AFB in an historic call to Congress to make health care reform meaningful for the more than 20 million Americans of all ages experiencing significant vision loss. Our community is calling upon law makers to make accessible medication labeling, Medicare reimbursement for low vision devices and other assistive technologies, and vision rehabilitation services reimbursement part of comprehensive health care reform. The correspondence has been delivered to all members of the Senate Committees on Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and the House Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, and senior leadership and key opinion leaders on both sides of the Hill, and follow-up visits are currently underway. I encourage all of our readers to reach out to your House and Senate members to make them aware of the vision loss-specific policy priorities and to enlist their support.

You can check out the letter that was sent as well as the list of endorsing organizations by visiting the Public Policy section of our site. Many thanks to all of the organizations that joined in on this important call to action!

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