America's health care in state of decline, says ACP at annual briefing

ACP reminded President Obama and Congress that there is an urgent need to move forward on health care reform at the annual State of the Nation's Health Care briefing, held in Washington last week.

"The unfortunate truth is that by many measures, the state of America's health care is in decline," said Joseph W. Stubbs, FACP, president of ACP. "We have too many uninsured, too few primary care physicians, and the cost of health care is rising faster than we can afford."

Additional information about the briefing was included in last Friday's issue of the ACP Advocate. The report that was released at the briefing is also available on ACP's Web site.