6/26/17: The American Medical Association joins a long list of organizations condemning Trumpcare.
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“The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels.”
American
Medical Association
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In a letter to Senator Mitch McConnell, the head of the AMA warns, “Medicine has long operated under the precept of Primum non nocere, or ‘first, do no harm.’ The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels.”
A list of groups opposed:
The American Hospital Association, which
represents 5,000 hospitals
The American Association of
Medical Colleges
The American College of
Physicians
The American Academy of
Family Physicians, which warns that the plan would do “great harm to
patients”
The American Academy of
Pediatrics which states flatly: “The bill fails children by dismantling
the Medicaid program, capping its funding, ending its expansion and allowing
its benefits to be scaled back.”
Just for fun, these groups also denounce Trumpcare:
The National Association of
Medicaid Directors
The American Psychiatric Association
The Federation of American Hospitals
America’s Essential Hospitals, which
warns: “Senate leaders…have put ideology ahead of lives with a plan that puts
health and home at risk for millions of working Americans.”
The American Heart Association, which
says the bill is “literally heartless”
The American Lung Association
The National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse, which warns: Anyone who votes for this bill “cannot claim to
be committed to ending the opioid epidemic.”
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action
Network
AARP, which advocates for 38 million
Americans over the age of 50
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Ironically, the Koch brothers, Charles and David, don’t think the Senate bill goes far enough to reduce access to healthcare.
Can you really expect those poor
gentlemen – worth more than $40 billion each – to pay higher taxes?
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