New Healthcare Website

AMA, other groups launch website to help explain healthcare law.
The Los Angeles Times /Orlando Sentinel (3/2, Shrieves) reported, "At a time when many Americans are confused about the healthcare overhaul law, a coalition of groups representing doctors, nurses, pharmacists and consumers has launched a website to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act." The American Medical Association (AMA) is a member of the coalition, and AMA President Cecil Wilson, MD, said, "There's a lot of confusion about what the law involves, there's confusion about whether the law is actually in effect and a lot of confusion about the politics of it, what's going on in Congress and what's going on in the courts." Wilson added, "The law is complicated, and the goal is to help the American people understand it. ... So this website was put together by a coalition of what we would describe as the nation's most-trusted organizations that represent consumers, nurses, pharmacists and physicians."
The New York Times (3/3, O'Connor) "Prescriptions" blog reported that other groups comprising the coalition include AARP, the American Academy of Family Physicians, "the American Nurses Association; the Catholic Health Association; the National Community Pharmacists Association; the American College of Physicians; and the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network."
CQ HealthBeat (3/2, subscription required) also quoted Wilson as saying that the website is "a critical resource for patients to quickly access valuable information about the healthcare law and how it affects them." The site, HealthCareandYou.org, "lists various benefits that are available now and will be in the future under the law, organizing them according to whether the website viewer is under age 65, 65 or older, or is associated with a small business."