AAMC Says Obama Budget Plan Threatens Access to Health Care

AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement today on the Obama administration’s FY 2013 budget proposal: “The AAMC is deeply concerned about the impact the president’s budget will have on the nation’s health.  The cuts to teaching hospitals through the plan’s drastic reductions to Medicare will hurt beneficiaries and exacerbate the already critical shortage of doctors in the United States.  In addition, while we thank the president for his commitment to medical research funding, the administration’s proposal to freeze the budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would mean that the NIH budget has failed to keep pace with biomedical inflation for 10 consecutive years, a situation that would have dramatic consequences on the pace of medical innovation and harm communities around the nation...>>>more