AAHC Urges Senate Majority Leader Reid to Amend Senate Bill to Strengthen National Workforce Planning Body
Dr. Steven A. Wartman, president and CEO of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC), urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to ensure that health reform create an integrated, coordinated national health workforce policy by incorporating four AAHC recommendations into Senate health reform legislation. "... House Speaker Pelosi released a health reform bill that now incorporates the first (and most important) of these recommendations," Wartman said in a letter to Reid this week. "The AAHC urges you to incorporate all four recommendations in any health reform legislation scheduled for a Senate floor vote."
After reviewing pending health reform bills, the AAHC recommends that four modifications be made to any health reform legislation voted on by the House and Senate: