Some reactions from the medical community:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/HealthPolicy/63673?xid=nl_mpt_SRPediatrics2017-03-07&eun=g739126d0r
"John B. Buses, M.D., Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "Rolling back the ability of every American to obtain healthcare coverage is short-sighted, and arguably, either cruel or uninformed. For those that are uninsured, there is virtually a guarantee of early death and disability. This is the problem with anything other than universal health coverage."
Diane Harper, MD, MPH, University of Louisville: "The current changes increase the chances that health will fall in the U.S. rankings from a global perspective. Primary care will be jeopardized. Abundant evidence indicates that without primary care, chronic end-stage disease and suffering, as well as their costs, will increase."
C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Harvard Medical School: "The proposed legislation is a major move backward. This is an example of where the desire to make a political statement comes at great expense to the citizens of the country -- not just measured in dollars, but also in the large numbers of currently insured people who will go back to being uninsured, and suffer with lower quality of healthcare."
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Carlos del Rio, MD, Emory Center for AIDS Research: "I am disappointed about the plan primarily because it is 'reverse Robin Hood,' by taking money/benefits from the poor and giving them to the rich."
Michael S. Saag, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham: "The repeal/replace approach to the ACA is misguided, at best, and hateful/mean spirited at worst. No question, the ACA has flaws and should be modified and amended. But 'throwing it out' and replacing with a piecemeal law that cherry picks some of the benefits, while gutting the primary means to pay for these benefits adds up to a very expensive replacement."
F. Sessions Cole, MD, St. Louis Children's Hospital: "I am disappointed by the House Republican plan. It leaves costs of healthcare coverage to the free market, a strategy that has consistently disadvantaged and discriminated against chronically ill and medically complex patients. The lack of information about the cost of and impact on the number of Americans covered suggests that this legislation has been developed to address special interests, and will have significant unintended, adverse consequences on a variety of health and wellness metrics."
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