Doctors And Patients Hurt By ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The post Doctors And Patients Hurt By ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The American Medical Association says legislation wending its way through the Republican-controlled … More Congress would “take us backward” as a country by cutting health benefits for poor and low-income Americans, the group’s president said Friday, June 6. In this photo, the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg © 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP The American Medical Association says legislation wending its way through the Republican-controlled Congress would “take us backward” as a country by cutting health benefits for poor and low-income Americans. Meeting for its annual policy-making House of Delegates this weekend in Chicago, the AMA is rallying physicians to thwart the legislation now before the U.S. Senate. Legislation known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that narrowly passed the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives two weeks ago “would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion and that the Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.8 million,” a KFF analysis shows. “We have to turn our anger into action,” AMA President Bruce A. Scott, M.D. said in a speech to AMA delegates Friday. “I know our patience is being tested by this new administration and Congress.” The AMA said it has launched a “grassroots campaign targeted at the Senate” in hopes of making changes to the legislation. The AMA is the nation’s largest physician group with more than 200,000 members. “The same House bill that brings us closer to finally tying future Medicare payments to the rising costs of running a practice, also takes us backwards by limiting access to care for millions of lower-income Americans,” Scott said. “Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act are literal lifelines for children and families for whom subsidized health coverage is their only real option. We must do all we…
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The American Medical Association says legislation wending its way through the Republican-controlled … More Congress would “take us backward” as a country by cutting health benefits for poor and low-income Americans, the group’s president said Friday, June 6. In this photo, the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg © 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP The American Medical Association says legislation wending its way through the Republican-controlled Congress would “take us backward” as a country by cutting health benefits for poor and low-income Americans. Meeting for its annual policy-making House of Delegates this weekend in Chicago, the AMA is rallying physicians to thwart the legislation now before the U.S. Senate. Legislation known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that narrowly passed the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives two weeks ago “would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion and that the Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.8 million,” a KFF analysis shows. “We have to turn our anger into action,” AMA President Bruce A. Scott, M.D. said in a speech to AMA delegates Friday. “I know our patience is being tested by this new administration and Congress.” The AMA said it has launched a “grassroots campaign targeted at the Senate” in hopes of making changes to the legislation. The AMA is the nation’s largest physician group with more than 200,000 members. “The same House bill that brings us closer to finally tying future Medicare payments to the rising costs of running a practice, also takes us backwards by limiting access to care for millions of lower-income Americans,” Scott said. “Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act are literal lifelines for children and families for whom subsidized health coverage is their only real option. We must do all we…
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