AAFP Continues to Press Congress for Medicare Payment Solution
The AAFP continues to press Congress for a long-term Medicare payment fix. In one of its latest efforts, the Academy has signed onto an AARP-circulated letter that calls on Congress to repeal the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula, which has triggered steep cuts in the Medicare payment rate during the past nine years. "We need to move away from the current payment formula that, year after ...

AARP's offensive new ad campaign
AARP's new ad campaign deems Social Security and Medicare benefits off limits. But would most members agree with that position if they understood it was just insuring that even more of the debt would be shifted to their children and grandchildren?