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      4 steps for medical assistants to help improve BP control

      The largest health system in Illinois found that their blood pressure control was at only 55.6%. Here is how medical assistants at Amita Health helped boost BP control.

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      These health-plan fundamentals that can have a major impact on a lifelong career in medicine.

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      $370,000 in AMA grants will help drive rigorous med ed innovations

      Learn more about the 15 medical schools and institutions receiving funds under the 2019 AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Innovation Grant Program.

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      Opportunities such as the National Health Service Corps and military service allow you to train for free, but it takes a certain type of person to thrive in those organizations.

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      The effort to understand which conditions foster health—and which create inequities—must be reinforced in medical school and extend throughout a physician’s career.

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      AMA member and IMG Subhash Chandra, MD, reminds patients and physicians of their right to mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

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AMA vision on health care reform

Download the vision statement on the AMA's commitment to improving health insurance coverage and health care access.

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Proposal would roll back LGBTQ protections. That’s an awful idea.

The AMA is condemning a proposed rule that would permit discrimination against LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, minorities and other patients.

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Health reform: How to improve U.S. health care in 2020 and beyond

Health insurance should cost less and work better for those who already have it, and should be much easier to obtain for those who don’t.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

AMA fights to preserve coverage gains made since ACA passage

Appellate Court judges heard arguments in a case seeking to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. Their ruling could affect health coverage for millions.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Physicians: The ACA should be strengthened, not abandoned

The AMA backs further fixes to the Affordable Care Act in line with its longtime support for universal coverage. 

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AMA: Build on the success of ACA to help patients lacking insurance

The AMA reaffirmed its commitment today to covering the uninsured by supporting critical improvements to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Court rejects Trump administration rule as “end-run around” ACA

The decision halts effort to expand association health plans, protecting patients from skimpy coverage and discrimination on the basis of pre-existing conditions.

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Patient Advocacy

AMA stands up for ACA patient protections in federal court

The AMA, joined by several other physician organizations, opposed a court decision striking down the Affordable Care Act and the patient protections that would go with it.

Patient Support & Advocacy

Quick Take: Federal judge blocks Medicaid work requirements

A judge blocks two states’ Medicaid work requirements, citing in one case an AMA brief noting the destructive effects of coverage gaps.

Press Releases

AMA, physician groups defend ACA gains in new Texas v. U.S. filing

In defense of coverage gains and patient protections of the ACA, the AMA and other leading physician groups filed an amicus brief in the case of Texas v. U.S.

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