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July 11, 2025: Advocacy Update spotlight on budget reconciliation bill

Details on the budget reconciliation bill and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

Advocacy Update
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AMA: Congress moves health care in wrong direction

Endangering access to care is a recipe for serious sickness among patients.

Press Releases
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AMA statement on Senate passing reconciliation bill

AMA warns that patients will have difficulty maintaining access to care.

Press Releases
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Senate budget-reconciliation bill risks worsening access to care

Bill would make it harder for patients to get and stay covered, fails to address Medicare pay, and eliminates loan options vital to medical students.  

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Federal Advocacy
Fighting for Physicians
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June 20, 2025: Advocacy Update spotlight on 2025 AMA Annual Meeting

Highlights from the 2025 AMA Annual Meeting and more in the latest Advocacy Update spotlight.

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Health insurance: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health insurer actions that interfere with the patient/physician relationship and impact the practice of medicine. Such topics include prior authorization, covered benefits, and affordability of health insurance.

Medical Service
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Physician payment reform: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that contribute to the policy options for reforming physician payment. Key council reports on this topic have addressed APMs, Medicaid expansion, the site-of-service differential and high-value care.

Medical Service
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State advocacy

Download an Advocacy Resource Center brochure PDF to learn how the AMA is relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.

State Advocacy
Bruce A. Scott, MD, speech at podium at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the HOD
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Immediate Past President Bruce Scott, MD, address at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the HOD

Bruce Scott, MD, addresses the AMA House of Delegates at the 2025 Annual Meeting in an urgent call to action to physicians. Access the transcript of the speech or recording.

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