Support and Encourage ACA to Hold Amputee Advocacy Workshops in Anaheim
Tony Barr
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Title:
Support and Encourage ACA to Hold Amputee Advocacy Workshops in Anaheim
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
1/5/2002
Text:
Angela,
You ask a good question from down under.Thanks for your support!
Hopefully, more will rally behind many to motivate ACA to not only schedule these workshops, but also take makeningful positions to advocate on behalf of amputees.!
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: angelasnow
Hi Tony
this all sounds great, and very logical for ACA to follow up. If an organisation with that amount of money is not advocating/lobbying for better care and prosthetics for its members, why does it even exist?
I wish we had a national body here in Australia. We don't appear to have the same problems as you guys, because the industry is quite well regulated, and generally the profiteering that seems to be rampant in the US is not such a problem (so far as I am aware). However, many people who are not compensable do not necessarily get the best prosthetic for their situation, there is a cap on funding.
cheers
Angela Snow, Melbourne, Australia.
dbk, lbe, partial right hand
pneumococcal septicaemia 1995
You ask a good question from down under.Thanks for your support!
Hopefully, more will rally behind many to motivate ACA to not only schedule these workshops, but also take makeningful positions to advocate on behalf of amputees.!
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: angelasnow
Hi Tony
this all sounds great, and very logical for ACA to follow up. If an organisation with that amount of money is not advocating/lobbying for better care and prosthetics for its members, why does it even exist?
I wish we had a national body here in Australia. We don't appear to have the same problems as you guys, because the industry is quite well regulated, and generally the profiteering that seems to be rampant in the US is not such a problem (so far as I am aware). However, many people who are not compensable do not necessarily get the best prosthetic for their situation, there is a cap on funding.
cheers
Angela Snow, Melbourne, Australia.
dbk, lbe, partial right hand
pneumococcal septicaemia 1995
Citation
Tony Barr, “Support and Encourage ACA to Hold Amputee Advocacy Workshops in Anaheim,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/218409.
