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Large Physicians Group Calls for More Health Care Reforms; Condemns Budget Impasse in Washington
The American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest medical specialty group in the U.S. and second-largest physicians group (whose members include 133,000 internal medicine physicians and related subspecialists), has issued its annual “State of the Nation’s Health Care” report for 2013.
The report praises the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (which some call “Obamacare”); warns of a “threat to public health and access” from the across-the-board “sequestration” budget cuts in Washington, and calls for additional reforms to improve the U.S. Health Care system.
In issuing the report and proposal at the ACP’s annual State of the Nation’s Health Care briefing on February 21, the ACP’s President, David L. Bronson, MD, FACP, said, “Continued improvement in the health care system to expand coverage and reduce unnecessary costs is imperative.” “Such efforts will not succeed in ensuring patient access to high quality medical care if the current assault on the patient-physician relationship continues unabated,” he said.
Healthcare Problems Identified
In a news release issued along with its report, the ACP said its report noted that “In some ways it is the best of times for U.S. health care, because the Affordable Care Act [which some call "Obamacare"] will soon make affordable coverage available to nearly all legal U.S. residents—for the first time in history—accompanied by a record slowdown in health care cost increases.”
But, the ACP’s report “also warned of vulnerable patients being left behind in states that refuse to cover their poor under Medicaid; [and] the threat to public health and access if an across-the-board budget cut (sequestration) is allowed to occur.”
“It simply is unacceptable that the political divisions in Washington have caused a recurring series of wholly unnecessary budget impasses that imperil the health and safety of the American people,” the ACP’s Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy, Bob Doherty, said in the release.
Other problems noted in the ACP report included, “the continued obstacles to high quality care created by Medicare’s flawed SGR formula; and the unacceptable toll of deaths and injuries from firearms.”
In addition, “A growing shortage of primary care physicians for adults will increase costs and reduce access,” the ACP warned. “And, many physicians report that it is the worst of times when it comes to intrusions on the hallowed patient-physician relationship,” the ACP said.
ACP Proposals
Among the proposals advanced by the ACP, were the following (as summarized in its news release):
“ACP’s recommendations to make the health system more effective:
“ACP’s recommendations to reduce intrusions on the patient-physician relationship:
“System-wide efforts to improve the health care system won’t succeed on their own in improving access and quality if the physicians that the system is counting on to deliver are over-hassled, over-stressed, harried, hushed and rushed,” Dr Bronson, the ACP’s President, noted.
“ACP views necessary strategic health reform improvements and results not from a partisan or ideological perspective, but from the standpoint of what the evidence tells us will be the most effective course of action,” Dr Bronson, said.
More Information
The American College of Physicians’ full State of the Nation’s Health Care 2013 report and recommendations is found on the ACP’s website.
For more news and information about the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, the Obama Administration’s signature Health Care Law, and about health care reform, see the HelpingYouCare® resource pages on VoicesForCare™, including:
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