Hal Daub, CEO of the American Health Care Association, says his industry needs the immigrants because he has far more work than workers.
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Reductions in hospital spending could be behind some of the slowdown in specialized nursing-facility costs, said Greg Crist, a spokesman for the American Health Care Association, a nursing-home industry group.
Mr. HAL DAUB (American Health Care Association): We still wouldn't have enough people because the number of elderly, disabled and poor coming at the care delivery system alone is just overwhelming.
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Greg Crist, a Washington-based spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association, which represents the largest share of skilled nursing facilities nationwide, said overall nursing home operators are well regulated and follow federal guidelines but added that he could not fully comment on the report's conclusions without having had the chance to read it.
Today, President Obama told the American Medical Association that the health care system costs too much, includes too few people and is unsustainable without major changes.
In a cameo in the White House briefing room yesterday, President Obama trumpeted the American Medical Association's endorsement of the House health-care plan.
Also present at the meeting were contributors to a special issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) focusing on problems in health care quality.
The American Medical Association and other physician groups arguing for the increase say health-care needs have changed markedly since 1997.
While Amy's incident may seem like it would be an isolated one in the health care field, a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association says otherwise.
"We have a situation where pollsters, consultants, and any other individual in the political arena has basically sent a message to their candidates, 'Run against managed care, '" says Karen Ignagni of the American Association of Health Plans.
The term was popularized by a public relations firm working for the American Medical Association in 1947 to disparage President Truman's proposal for a national health care system.
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