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Update on Medicare Package and Other Health Care Bills	6/27/2008
This week was one of the busiest of the Congressional session thus far, with Congress considering three major health care bills.
JOINT RELEASE - APOA, NAAOP, ACA, AAOP & ABC	6/13/2008
Congressional Bill Represents Important Step Forward for O & P Profession
ACTION ALERT: Call Your Congressman and Two Senators TODAY!	6/10/2008

Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights Legislation Gets Congressional Hearing	4/18/2008
With lightening speed, Chairman Bob Filner of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, has introduced legislation to establish an Injured and Amputee Veterans Bill of Rights (H.R. 5730) and has made the bill the subject of a Congressional hearing.
NAAOP Advances Veterans and Research Issues in Washington	3/20/2008
NAAOP meets on Capitol Hill, at the White House and Pentagon as well as with rehabilitation research leadership staff at the VA.
O&P Issues in the 2nd session of the 110th Congress	2/28/2008

Last Budget for President Bush Aims to Cut Medicare Deeply	2/5/2008
President Bush released his last federal budget for fiscal year 2009, which begins October 1st.
NAAOP 2008 Priorities and 2007 Accomplishments	1/15/2008
NAAOP is proud to be your voice for professional O&P patient care
Congress Adjourns - Important O&P Issues	12/26/2007
End-of-the-Year Legislation Offers Positive Developments to O&P Field
NAAOP Government Relations Update	10/18/2007
NAAOP, as well as the other O&P groups that form the O&P Alliance, will be busy over the next several weeks defending the Medicare O&P fee schedule, and also trying to take advantage of opportunities that the Medicare bill will offer.
Congress Returns to Packed Fall Agenda	9/7/2007
As Congress returns this week from a rather eventful August recess, a busy legislative season begins with several NAAOP priorities pending.
Congress Takes August Recess, NAAOP Doesn't	8/3/2007
This means that NAAOP will be hard at work in August to protect the O&P fee schedule from reductions or freezes.
NAAOP Government Relations Update	8/1/2007
Of particular importance to NAAOP and the O&P profession, proposed legislation does not target the Medicare orthotic and prosthetic fee schedule in order to pay for major "cost-ers" in the bill.
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