As We See It: Voices From the AAFP -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians

"As We See It" uses messages from AAFP leadership, editorials and other opinion pieces to update you on Academy advocacy and other key topics, often including "inside story" information to help you better understand the Academy's actions. From time to time, individual AAFP members may be invited to share their views on issues via guest opinions. As We See It online also is the home for letters to the editor.

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Roland Goertz w/Steny Hoyer, D-Md., discuss SGR during Fly-in

AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, left, talks to House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., about the sustainable growth rate formula during a visit to Capitol Hill.

Physician Groups Unite Behind SGR Message to Congress

(2/6/2012, 4:50 p.m.) -- The AAFP and other physician groups are working together to keep pressure on lawmakers to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Representatives from the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, and the American College of Surgeons, along with me and AAFP President-elect Jeffrey Cain, M.D., had more than 20 meetings with congressional staff -- including face time with nearly a dozen legislators -- during a Jan. 31 visit to Capitol Hill. More