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SVS Signs Onto Letter to President Obama with 17 Other Surgical Specialty Associations

The sign-on letter was sent to the President following comments he made at an August 11, 2009 town hall meeting on health care reform, intimating that surgeons are motivated to make treatment decisions based on what they are reimbursed.