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Most commercial health insurance markets are highly concentrated

Health insurance competition is sorely lacking, AMA research shows, and growing consolidation is not bringing lower premiums for patients.

Access to Care
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Nov. 29, 2018: Advocacy spotlight on Majority of commercial health insurance markets are highly concentrated

Majority of commercial health insurance markets are highly concentrated; find out how AMA is answering the questions you have.

Advocacy Update
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Nov. 29, 2018: National Advocacy Update

CMS on beneficiaries' social determinants of health and revised FDA compounding guidance in AMA's national advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Nov. 29, 2018: State Advocacy Update

AMA asks regulators to ensure patients' access to covered benefits, APA creates model bills to enforce mental health parity and more in the latest AMA state advocacy efforts.

Advocacy Update
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Nov. 29, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn about the AMA's support on a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration's 2018 final rule on short-term health plans.

Advocacy Update
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Competition levels drop for health insurance markets across 25 states

New AMA study finds half of all states had commercial health insurance markets that were less competitive in 2017 than the previous year.

Press Releases
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Short-term health plans will bring long-term pain for patients

The AMA and others ask a federal court to stop a rule that allows these health plans to undermine patient protections and sabotage the insurance risk pool.

Judicial Advocacy
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8 ways to promote affordable access to high-value care

Cost concerns too often prevent patients from pursing evidence-based care their doctors recommend. The AMA details tools, insurance plan designs and advocacy initiatives that can help.

Access to Care
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AMA backs in-person import of Canadian Rx if safety is assured

Allowing the practice offers patients an option to lower patient out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs, which addresses a barrier to medication adherence: unaffordability.

Behavioral Health