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Blitzing for Family Medicine
The Academy’s fight for family medicine is nothing if not a long game. Sometimes, though, the playbook calls for the old ghost blitz.
That was the maneuver last week when the AAFP’s president, Board chair and Board members conducted a high-powered, minutely scheduled day of lobbying pandemic-style virtually.
How’d it go?
“Great day, great day,” Academy President Ada Stewart, M.D., of Columbia, S.C., said on the video call that participants shared afterward to debrief.
It was a full day, certainly. Stewart’s agenda had included sit-downs with staff from her state’s senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, and Rep. Joe Wilson, also R-S.C.; additionally, she joined AAFP colleagues for meetings with staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
AAFP Highlights Primary Care in Rescue Package Needs
Pay Parity, Workforce Priorities Among Key Academy Asks
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Feb. 10 letter to congressional committee leaders, the AAFP called for legislative action to bolster primary care and improve Americans’ access to it. The recommended measures, wrote the Academy, are in close alignment with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 stimulus and recovery plan.
“The American Rescue Plan calls for significant investment in COVID-19 vaccinations, testing and treatments. Primary care is a critical gateway to all of these,” the letter said. “Additionally, primary care physicians are among the most trusted advisers for vaccine decisions and will be