The doctors were in Friday. Or, rather, they were on the North Lawn.
Doctors for America, a national nonprofit organization, has joined the presidential candidates in the campaign race for health care. This year’s election will decide whether the Affordable Care Act will remain a law or be repealed.
Doctors for America came to UF as part of its Patients Over Politics tour. Members want to inform student voters about the act and encourage them to vote in support of it, said Scott Poppen, a Utah doctor working one of the nonpartisan organization’s booths Friday.
“Students haven’t formed an opinion, so they are more open-minded,” Poppen said.
The doctors gave out fliers about the health care act and how it can help students. For example, people ages 19 to 26 can now stay under their parents’ insurance, an opportunity six million young adults have taken, said Doctors for America Executive Director Alice Chen.
Third-year UF medical student Frank Walch, 24, said he liked that doctors are educating people, because many students don’t know a lot about the act.
“They put a face on a real issue that will be discussed in this election,” he said.
Doctors for America, a national group of physicians and medical students, stopped by the UF campus Friday to talk to students about health care as a part of its Patients Over Politics tour.
