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AMA seeks to boost affordability, competition in ACA marketplaces

Nearly 12 million people obtained coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces this year. The AMA adopts policies to improve the exchanges.

Access to Care
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AMA recommends ways to improve affordability in the health exchanges

AMA endorsed policies that take steps to make health insurance on the health insurance exchanges more affordable.

Press Releases
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AMA backs steps to protect and sustain ACA marketplaces

AMA announced its opposition to insurance plans being sold in individual, small group markets that do not guarantee critical patient protections under the ACA.

Press Releases
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AMA plans advocacy outreach to expand colorectal screening

Building on the efficacy of colorectal cancer screening, AMA endorsed a plan to work with physicians, payers to make screening more available and affordable.

Press Releases
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AMA adopts policy to address costs of long-term services, supports

AMA House of Delegates adopted policy to make long-term care insurance simpler, affordable, and innovative for current employees, retirees.

Press Releases
AMA President David O. Barbe, MD, MHA
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AMA president: Sustained leadership earns results on vital issues

With persistence, innovation and dedication, physicians are reshaping medicine. That leadership is needed more than ever, says David O. Barbe, MD, MHA.

Leadership
Damaged home in Puerto Rico
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Physicians helped boost aid for Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

Action taken by AMA House of Delegates credited with helping deliver relief to U.S. areas devastated by hurricanes.

Medicare & Medicaid
Melissa Garretson, MD
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AMA policy opposing Medicaid caps had an immediate impact

Doctors presented Congress with a unified front after adopting a new AMA policy at the 2017 AMA Annual Meeting that opposed federal spending caps on Medicaid.

Access to Care
The White House
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AMA objects to attack on family planning services

Citing the need for unfiltered communication between doctors and patients, the AMA objects strongly to proposal to withhold family planning funding.

Public Health Advocacy