What Will Potential Repeal of the Affordable Care Act Mean for Patients? Largest U.S. Physician Specialty Group Offers Prescription


NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Trump administration and the new Congress have both promised that they will repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017, but what will that mean for patients across the country?  When it was enacted in 2010 the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in sweeping changes to the health insurance industry while also greatly decreasing the number of people without insurance in our country.  If the law is repealed, how will it impact patients who gained insurance, or whose insurance was improved, under the ACA?

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The largest U.S. physician specialty group offers their prescription.

YourUpdateTV, D S Simon Media and The American College of Physicians (ACP) recently completed a nationwide satellite media tour to share its recommendations on proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and to offer their thoughts on how to evaluate the impact of any proposed changes on access, quality and cost, to ensure that they first, do no harm to patients and actually result in improvements.

ACP is the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest physician group in the world. ACP members include 148,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internal medicine physicians are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness.

For more information, please visit https://www.acponline.org/advocacy/where-we-stand/affordable-care-act

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About the American College of Physicians
The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States. ACP members include 148,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internal medicine physicians are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness.


            

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