Patients, doctors, advocacy groups express concerns about AHCA

Patients, doctors and several of the nation’s leading organizations that advocate for better health care for chronic disease patients joined today to express significant concerns about the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which is currently being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives.

At today’s event at the National Press Club, patients managing diabetes, congenital heart disease, and in active treatment for cancer shared their personal stories and the negative impact the current legislation would have on them and millions of Americans like them. Leaders from the American Medical Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association urged Congress to slow down and reconsider proposed changes to the health care law so that people would not lose access to vital health care.