Medical Economics June 24, 2024
Rep. Buddy Carter discusses issues affecting the American health care system.
The Affordable Care Act and Medicare Advantage are two large-scale federal programs that affect the daily lives of physicians and their patients. Not every doctor, patient and lawmaker likes them – but they are examples of why physicians need to get involved in the legislative process.
Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-Georgia) is a career pharmacist and small business owner of Carter’s Pharmacy Inc., which dispensed medicines to patients of south Georgia.
In Congress, he is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials, and the House Budget Committee. He also has been a critic of Obamacare,...