Health Insurance Competition

Patient Support & Advocacy

AMA advocacy 2020-2021 efforts

The AMA advocates at the federal and state levels on key health care issues impacting patients and physicians. See updates of our some of our recent efforts.

AMA in the NewsOct 30, 2020

AMA in the News: October 2020

Read media highlights mentioning the American Medical Association for October 2020.

Publications & NewslettersOct 16, 2020

Oct. 16, 2020: Advocacy spotlight on Competition declined in majority of health insurance markets where it is most scarce

Competition declined in majority of health insurance markets where it is most scarce in the latest Advocacy Update Spotlight.

Patient Support & AdvocacyOct 14, 2020

Is your town one of the least competitive health insurance markets?

As health insurance companies consolidate, market competition falls, leaving consumers with higher premiums and fewer choices and providers with lower payment.

Press ReleasesOct 14, 2020

Competition shrank in majority of health insurance markets where it is scarcest

New AMA study finds increasingly limited health insurance options for patients in highly concentrated markets.

State Advocacy

State advocacy

Relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.

Patient Support & Advocacy

CVS-Aetna merger

The AMA aims to protect patients and physicians by actively opposing anticompetitive health insurer mergers.

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