A tax and spend, or budget reconciliation, bill that passed the House and is now under consideration in the Senate includes provisions that would limit access to medical school loans and loan forgiveness programs — threatening the future of our physician workforce at a time of growing need.
Now is the time to act!
In addition to threatening the physician pipeline, the student loan and forgiveness changes in H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are also likely to limit access to care in rural and underserved communities where the need is greatest.
Among the concerning provisions are:
There is bipartisan agreement in Congress that there are not enough physicians to meet the health care needs of Americans. Yet, these proposals will make the pathway to becoming a physician more difficult, perhaps impossible for many. House lawmakers got it wrong when they included these provisions in H.R. 1.
ACOI needs you to post on X this week with a message to your senators that they need to improve the reconciliation bill by protecting medical education loan and forgiveness programs to strengthen the future physician workforce.
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