Following up and continuing Dr. Hersh’s In Defense of AHRQ: A Key Component of Healthcare Delivery Science conversation to save AHRQ from being defunded. The agency’s mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. The advocates say the research they do is invaluable in a time we are transforming our healthcare industry. Current legislation being considered in the House would defund the entire agency while legislation in the Senate would cut its fund significantly. Follow and join the conversation with the hashtag #saveAHRQ. Here are some Twitter highlights.
Current legislation being considered in the House would defund the entire agency while legislation in the Senate would cut its fund significantly. Follow and join the conversation with the hashtag #saveAHRQ.
.@ConsumersUnion to Congress: Don’t mess with #AHRQ funding! http://t.co/5XgRTUTcRy #SaveAHRQ @AHRQNews
— CU Health (@CU_Health) July 8, 2015
More reasons to #saveAHRQ http://t.co/CcV2gXfdnt via @modrnhealthcr
— Bill Hersh (@williamhersh) July 6, 2015
Why is Congress proposing to abolish AHRQ when we need it most? @lsimpso1216 tackles the question: http://t.co/FZd2exiK7z #SaveAHRQ
— AcademyHealth (@AcademyHealth) July 2, 2015
Beautifully written article by @ginakolata motivating the importance of health services research. #saveahrq http://t.co/LO7vOKFFK1
— Lindsey Leininger (@lindsleininger) July 1, 2015
Great piece .@BudgetHawks on why cutting @AHRQNews CMMI is fiscally irresponsible #SaveAHRQ #LHHS16 #cutshurt http://t.co/6uj8sDenwy
— Health Funding (@healthfunding) July 1, 2015
Don’t understand why some in Congress want us to drive blind on health care spending. #saveAHRQ http://t.co/olVhAcNwMJ
— Dr. Celine Gounder (@celinegounder) July 1, 2015
Defunding #AHRQ is shortsighted and risks the nation’s health #SaveAHRQ http://t.co/KRxEpzMIYp
— Griffin Cupstid, MD (@griffincupstid) July 1, 2015
To cut healthcare costs, a House subcommittee votes to eliminate an agency researching how to cut costs? #SaveAHRQ http://t.co/OAyTNjqirV
— Brendan Pease (@bdpease) July 1, 2015