What the ACA Should Have Included—Physician Perspectives at the University of Pennsylvania

Many feel that the United States health care system is unstable, unsustainable, and broken in numerous ways. The largest health care overhaul in decades, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed and implemented in 2010 Professional medical organizations have come out in support of the act, but the degree to which organizations other than the American Medical Association (AMA) were consulted in crafting the bill is murky at best And what about doctors themselves? The vast majority of physicians feel that the AMA doesn't effectively represent them A Physician's Foundation survey in 2012 found over 82 percent of doctors agreed that "physicians have little influence on the direction of health care and have little ability to affect change" Physicians whose lives and practices are profoundly affected by health reform policy do not feel they have a say about which issues are important and how best to solve them. It's time for them to be a part of the debate

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