Robert Gatty
Robert Gatty has more than 40 years of experience in journalism, politics and business communications and is the founder and president of G-Net Strategic Communications based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He can be reached at bob@gattyedits.com.
Transparency in health reform or a ball-and-chain?
As lawmakers work to meet an October deadline imposed by President Obama for passing national healthcare reform legislation, options under Read More » Associations bristle over Medicare cuts; offer an alternative
Representatives for the nursing home industry have strongly criticized a new plan by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to slash Read More » Union card check: The coming storm
Bob Gatty While organizations representing long-term care services are working hard to convince Congress to include support for long-term care in Read More » No real healthcare reform without LTC financing discussion
Organizations representing various sectors of the nursing home and long-term care community have urged Congress to include improvements in long-term Read More » To Congress: Let LTC help push economy
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 signed by President Obama February 17, includes key provisions that had been sought and strongly Read More » Counterbalancing MedPAC’s funding cuts
Contending that America's skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are raking in the dough and generating fat profits from Medicare patients, the Medicare Read More » Workforce crisis worsens
The nation's nursing home industry is facing a critical, and apparently worsening, workforce crisis and is urging the federal government to step in Read More » New president, new LTC challenges
With President-elect Barack Obama ready to assume power next month and Democrats significantly increasing their majority in both the House and Read More » The case for care transparency
When the new Congress gets down to business early next year, organizations representing the nursing home community will be confronted with two Read More » Getting LTC reform’s foot in the D.C. door
With the general election looming, organ-izations representing the long-term care community are working to create a political climate in Washington Read More » Election year ‘heat’ burns Medicare cuts
There is nothing like the pressure that comes from the election season to encourage politicians and those bureaucrats who must answer to them to pay Read More » Medicare funding cuts delayed—for now
The skilled nursing facility (SNF) and assisted living community achieved an important victory June 30 when President Bush signed an Iraq war Read More » Why Is Medicare Trying to Penalize Us for Something They Did Wrong?
In June, the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) brought nearly 400 industry representatives to Read More » Bureaucratic ‘sleight of hand’ doesn’t fool LTC industry
What one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away. Perhaps those words should be inscribed above the entrance to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Read More » Funding cuts uproar continues
Against a backdrop of warnings that a funding crisis looms on the horizon for Medicare, organizations representing skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) Read More » Groundswell builds against Medicare cuts
With the election campaign heating up–one in which control of Congress is at stake along with the White House–nursing home industry advocates appear Read More » Groups blast Medicare cuts
Even as the federal government proposes Medicare and Medicaid spending cuts for 2009, long-term care organizations are pushing to reform the Read More » Why MedPAC is so stingy
It appears that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) face the likelihood of entering 2009 with the same Medicare reimbursement rates that exist today, Read More » 