As the US Congress debates Health Care reform, ASHA continues to provide input to ensure that speech-language pathology and audiology issues, such as therapy caps, direct access to audiologists, fixing the conversion factor of the Medicare fee schedule, and comprehensive coverage of services are included in the debate. For further information, see the following website, http://www.asha.org/advocacy/2009/CongressBegDebateHealthCareReform.htm or contact Ingrida Lusis, ASHA’s Director of Federal and Political Advocacy, at 202-624-5951 or via e-mail at ilusis@asha.org.

ASHA's Government Relations and Public Policy (GRPP) Board is also soliciting member input on 2010 Public Policy Agenda at http://www.asha.org/peer-review/publicpolicy.htm