(Original Title) “American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously to support H.R. 3200”<\/p>\n
Medical News Today News Article – Printer Friendly<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously to support H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, as the basis for health reform.<\/p>\n ‘In doing so, the APA is pleased to stand with the American Medical Association,’ said a letter presenting the board’s decision to the American Medical Association. ‘The APA Board of Trustees also voted to support the concept of a public plan option based upon the voluntary participation of physicians and other healthcare professionals in the ongoing dialogue of health care reform.’<\/p>\n ‘While H.R. 3200 – like any bill – is not perfect, we recognize that it offers many positive benefits for psychiatrists and other physicians, and most importantly for our patients,’ the letter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This now adds the 9th largest physician organization to be on board for HB 3200, including the AMA, ACP, AAFP, AAP, AOA, ACS, and ACOG.<\/em> (Original Title) “American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously to support H.R. 3200” Medical News Today News Article – Printer Friendly: The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously … Continue reading “Eight of Ten Largest Physician Groups Back HR 3200”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,92,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hb-3200","category-organized-medicine","category-physician-opinion"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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For completeness, #8, the American Society of Anesthesiology and #10, the Amercian College of Radiology are still against reform until they get reimbursement “fixes.” <\/em>
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#11, the American College of Emergency Physicians is still waiting for final form bills to commit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"