The AARC is taking the opportunity to plead our case before the HCFA regime. That money should be used to provide better services to the patient. RCP's who gripe about the AARC but are not members. I tell them the same thing I tell people who don't vote. They have no right to complain.
Membership is a good value.
The AARC has recently won some hard fought battles on Capital Hill assuring that there will be RCP jobs in the future. Medicare recognizes physical therapists and nurses as delivering respiratory therapy in the home, but not RCP's. I don't think they would. That is my Top Ten list. There were many more I could have included, but then it would have been a Top Twenty or Top Thirty list, and space prohibits me from expounding further.