Competitive Bidding: Shut it down completely!

Popular press is finally recognizing that CMS's so called "competitive bidding" program hatched by and against all odds, still being stuffed down the throats of beneficiaries, providers, and congress, is a train wreck and must be stopped NOW.

The following article from Huffington Post discusses taking first steps to modernizing entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The Super Committee can take the long-term view of reform with steps that will move away from the failed approach of Washington micro-management and toward modern reforms that rely on consumer choice and market competition.

In this article, competitive bidding is described as a program that is actually driving out competition and violating all the rules of a market-driven bidding system. In order to save consumer choice and access to quality medical goods and services, this program should be SHUT DOWN!

All providers should forward this article to their members of Congress and ask that they help shut down the competitive bidding program, as well as save beneficiary's choice and access to quality care.

Please visit the VGM DC Link here to send your representative and senators an e-mail requesting that they shut down competitive bidding. A letter is provided that may be sent directly from the site. Please be sure that you follow-up with phone calls to your legislators, ensuring they got your message. Call the U.S. Switchboard at 202-224-3121, or find your legislators' D.C. office phone number on the VGM DC Link . Ask to speak with your legislator's Health LA.