American Medical Association Comes Out Against GOP Health Care Bill
By MATT SHUHAM Published MARCH 8, 2017, 12:03 PM EDT
The nation's largest advocacy group for doctors has joined several other health care organizations in voicing its opposition to the House GOP's Obamacare replacement proposal.
In a letter dated Tuesday to the two House committees currently reviewing separate aspects of the replacement proposal – Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce – the AMA wrote that “while we agree that there are problems with the (Affordable Care Act) that must be addressed, we cannot support the (American Health Care Act) as drafted because of the expected decline in health insurance coverage and the potential harm it would cause to vulnerable patient populations.”
The group wrote that it supported tax credits to pay for health insurance, which the ACHA uses, but that “credits should be inversely related to an individual’s income,” rather than based on age, the primary variable in the House GOP’s plan.
In addition, the letter said, changes to Medicaid – freezing the expansion authorized by Obamacare, and eventually, turning the program into a per capita block grant to the states – “threaten to force states to limit coverage and increase the number of uninsured.”
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