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Featured News and Stories
Statement of the American College of Physicians on President Obama’s Health Insurance Reform Proposal![]()
Today the American College of Physicians (ACP) released a statement on President Obama’s health insurance reform proposal. Attribution should be to Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP, president of ACP.
ACP Advocate Blog Cited as Best Health Policy/Ethics Weblog ‘One of the more influential professional association blogs out there,’ declares contest sponsor
Washington— The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty was cited at the conclusion of voting last week as “the Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog of 2009” in the 2009 Medical Blog Awards. The announcement of the winners noted that “while representing The American College of Physicians (ACP) on societal and public policy issues, [Robert B. Doherty] runs one of the more influential professional association blogs out there.”
America’s Health Care System in State of Decline, Urgent Need to Move Forward on Essential Reforms American College of Physicians Tells President Obama and Congress
Washington, February 17, 2010 – “The unfortunate truth is that by many measures, the State of America’s health care is in decline,” Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), reported today at ACP’s annual State of the Nation’s Health Care briefing. “We have too many uninsured, too few primary care physicians, and the cost of health care is rising faster than we can afford.”
Featured Multimedia
R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH, discusses how pipe and cigar smoking negatively affect lung function.
ACP in the News
- 1/22/10 Doctor and Patient: Offering Care for the Caregiver - New York Times
- 1/13/10 Doctors Demand Better Medicaid Reimbursements - HealthLeaders Media
- 1/3/10 Relax, You Can Beat That Stress - Wall Street Journal
- 1/2/10 U.S. facing crisis in family medicine - Chicago Sun-Times
- 11/13/09 Doctor Shortage to Spur Delays, Crowded ERs in Health Overhaul - Bloomberg News
- 10/20/09 Regimens: Doctors Group Endorses Erectile Drugs - New York Times
- 10/1/09 Vaccines can be lifesavers - Philadelphia Inquirer
- 9/21/09 Shame on us all if we do nothing to fix health care - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- 9/16/09 In Depth: 10 Symptoms Too Dangerous To Ignore - Forbes
- 9/15/09 Reform plan should encourage training of more internists - Idaho Statesman
- 9/9/09 And now a word from our internists (what they say about healthcare reform) - Los Angeles Times
- 8/27/09 Obama asks docs to promote health care fix - Associated Press
- 8/7/09 France Fights Universal Care's High Cost - Wall Street Journal
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