News in brief AOA joins several doctors’ groups to oppose the American Health Care Act The AOA issues a joint statement with several other health care organizations against the AHCA. May 5, 2017Friday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics American Health Care Acthealth care policy The AOA has joined several other health care organizations to oppose the passing of the AHCA by the House of Representatives. “Our organizations, which represent over 560,000 physicians and medical students, are deeply disappointed that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), an inherently flawed bill that would do great harm to our patients,” says the joint statement. CBS News covered the AOA’s opposition on its website Friday. The AOA joins the following organizations in opposing the AHCA: American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Psychiatric Association. The statement calls on the U.S. Senate to set aside AHCA and instead create bipartisan solutions to improve affordability, access and coverage for all. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleArt & medicine: Finding color in the gray Next articleInterested in informatics? AMIA offers survey for informatics professionals
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Aetna has just pulled out and at least 2 other insurers are expected to follow. How can you support a broken system?!! I would expect to see us support risk pools and selling insurance across state lines, not trying to undermine one of the main things the voters wanted. Ask your people from Minnesota who had their high risk pool dismantled by the disaster of Obama Care how it affected their state. May. 11, 2017, at 11:27 am Reply
They don’t represent 500,000 doctors, they have them by the scruff of the neck in order to remain board certified. Remove that obligation and the AOA won’t represent 50,000 doctors. Just a fact. May. 11, 2017, at 12:05 pm Reply
The AOA can only claim to represent doctors because many are forced to remain associated with the liberal AOA due to board certification. It is clear Obamacare is broken and collapsing, it really is, just look at all the places with few or no options under the law. Healthcare costs have soared, not decreased like Obama promised. The AOA has become nothing more than a left leaning political organization. May. 11, 2017, at 3:22 pm Reply