More on COCSA Call for Unification of ICA & ACA Re: Volume 29, Issue 5 The resolution to unify the ICA and the ACA by 2010 should be accelerated to an earlier time. By 2010, there is little doubt that a National Health Care Bill will be on the agenda of the next Congress after the November 2008 election. What is apparent from the article by Dr. Joseph Busch is that neither the ICA nor the ACA have the membership or political influence to shape our scope of practice under a National Health Insurance Program, which is going to be high on the political spectrum of the next U.S. Congress. The current Medicare parameters would be a professional disaster for every Chiropractic Physician in the United States if implemented into another Federal Program. What should be considered at this point in time is what common bond would chiropractors consider to financially fund a new organization? What did the Illinois State Medical Society do years ago to raise their membership from 11,000 to 35,000 within a five-year period? The answer? They became a mutual malpractice insurance company with additional membership benefits like cost effective CME programs for license renewal. They competed with existing coverage for MD's and the result speaks for itself. The other issues of philosophical differences will resolve when the primary goal of a politically viable organization aggressively works to allow the scope of practice to remain as to what is current in the respective states. Failing to find a common meeting ground of mutual need will only serve to keep chiropractic a divided profession. As written on the podium of a Baptist Church on the South Side of Chicago, IF WE DO NOT LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER AS BROTHERS, THEN WE WILL SUREL Y DIE APART... AS FOOLS. L. S. Levin, D.C. Chicago, IL
