When a state has recently recognized family medicine's crucial importance to the health of its citizens, what's the next step?

In Oregon, where lawmakers in 2017 unanimously passed legislation requiring that 12% of all health spending go toward primary care, the AAFP's answer is simple: Build on that.

In a March 4 letter to the Oregon Senate's health care committee, the Academy expressed support for a bill introduced this session that would maintain the 12% mandate while updating the law to solidify family medicine's gains there the past few years. The Oregon AFP, meanwhile, submitted separate testimony supporting the updated law.

As the number of confirmed measles cases continues to rise, the CDC is pulling out all the stops to emphasize the importance of childhood vaccination and prevent more people from becoming infected. 
 
"Today, the overwhelming majority of parents choose to protect their children with vaccines," said HHS Secretary Alex Azar during an April 29 press telebriefing."However, we are very concerned about the recent troubling rise in cases of measles, which was declared eliminated from our country in 2000."

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