Delegates to the 2013 Congress of Delegates here voted Sept. 24 to safeguard access to quality health care for all by investigating how best to serve the interests of the nation’s older family physicians, as well as those in solo or small practices, especially in rural areas.

A resolution jointly submitted by seven AAFP chapters — many of which encompass significant populations of medically underserved patients — asked the Academy to encourage CMS to “institute a waiver of penalties to all one- or two-physician private practices whose principals are aged 60 or older.” Read more here.