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American Academy of Family Physicians Applauds American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Posted on: Friday, April 17, 2009
The American Academy of Family Physicians is pleased how the Act addressed and funded key issues in health care. This act boosts funding for research into the most effective clinical treatments, preserves the access of low-income families to Medicaid, invests in medical education funding, and supports health information technology implementation. More has been done for the cause of health care at the political level in the last few months than has been done in the past eight years and this act is responsible for most of that change.
Some of the concrete measures included in the act are:
- 20 million eligible, low-income Americans will continue to qualify for Medicaid coverage as a result of the increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage.
- 6.5 million newly unemployed workers will have continued access to health care through COBRA premium assistance
- provisions enabling physicians to implement electronic health records that the AAFP has long supported
- providing up to $44,000 to individual physicians for buying, installing and upgrading health information technology
- revitalizing support for health professions grants for family medicine under Title VII of the Public Health Service Act and for the National Health Services Corps which places providers in underserved communities
- $500 Million for the Indian Health Service
- $155 million that will support 126 new health centers
The AAFP also supported provisions for comparative effectiveness research that will be funded by $1.1 Billion. This ensures that the most effective treatments that are being used in clinics will be thoroughly studied and recommended by other health care organizations. The provisions in the Act will ensure patient access to health care despite their economic situation and provide for future health care that implements information technology to both save money and ensure that a patient’s medical records are accessible by any health care organization that may need them for urgent medical care purposes.
For a full breakdown of what is contained in the act, visit the website set up for it at recovery.gov.
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