Tag: Consumer Power
NRRTS responds to the AARP
November 18, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor
A few blogs ago, I wrote about an editorial in the recent AARP Bulletin titled "The Case of the Expensive Wheelchair." Simon Margolis, executive director of NRRTS, has crafted a response titled "The Case of the Misinformed Editor."
The crux of Margolis' argument: The press (and members of Congress and officials at CMS, for that matter) should keep their hands off of complex rehab. Instead, it should focus on consumer power:
These are the suppliers that are gaming the system. These are the suppliers...