HOW OBAMACARE WILL AFFECT YOU – FEB 17
HOW OBAMACARE WILL AFFECT YOU – DR. C. L. GRAY
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 11:30 a.m.
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Dr. C. L. Gray is a nationally known writer, speaker, and board certified physician practicing hospital-based medicine in western North Carolina. In 2006 he founded Physicians for Reform, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving patient-centered healthcare. Gray’s current book, The Battle for America’s Soul, resulted from a decade spent in research and analysis of the history and philosophy of medical ethics. This book presents findings that link America’s present cultural divide with the practice of Post-Hippocratic medicine.
As one of the nation’s leading patient advocates, Dr Gray wrote multiple national op-eds including two pieces specifically requested by FOX News covering President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address and a the high profile 2010 Healthcare Summit. With some 400,000 readers, Gray’s piece Why Doctors are Leaving Medicare became one of the most highly read opinion pieces FOX posted. Other op-ed’s appeared in The Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, The Washington Examiner, The Hill, and others. Gray has two scientific publications to his credit and has authored two books.
Gray’s research, writing, and unique voice as a practicing physician moved him onto the national stage as a widely sought public speaker. He spoke to tens-of-thousands of people at town-halls in Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina during the summer of 2009. Invited to speak on the West Lawn of the U.S Capitol on September 12, 2009, Gray addressed the estimated 1.2 million people at the Tea Party’s March on Washington. In 2010 Gray served as the keynote speaker for the South Carolina American College of Physicians Annual Convention. In April 1012, Dr. Gray will give the keynote address to the to the Delaware Academy of Medicine in the Gold Ballroom of the DuPont Hotel.
Gray’s work now takes him to Washington and state capitals where Physicians for Reform has been tapped to help craft solutions to save Medicare and Medicaid from financial collapse. In 2010, physicians underwent the longest interruption of payments in Medicare’s history. In January of 2012 physicians face a 29.5% cut in Medicare reimbursement; this places seniors at risk as doctors abandon Medicare in record numbers. Nationwide nearly every state faced massive budget shortfalls when the federal Medicaid funding of the stimulus bill ran out. These dilemmas can only be solved through patient-centered, fiscally responsible reforms such as outlined by Physicians for Reform.
