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The AMA strongly opposes the Senate's health-reform proposal

Tens of millions could lose coverage, and a shortsighted Medicaid funding formula would threaten care for our society's most vulnerable patients.

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Selective view of past misses AMA role in shaping medicine's future

While views on health care have changed within the physician community during the AMA’s 170-year history, our mission has been unwavering.

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3 simple commitments can help solve medicine’s biggest challenges

Honesty, context and evidence are critical concepts that could help us reverse the opioid epidemic that takes the lives of one American every 15 minutes.

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Doctor and nurse talking with patient
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Physicians are born to care

Despite challenges in practice, physicians are committed to patient care. The AMA is devoted to giving you tools to advance your mission in medicine.

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Various physicians of various ages.
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Latest draft of AHCA still doesn’t measure up

The newest version of the House’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would make coverage unaffordable for millions more Americans.

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Physicians reject House ACA replacement bill

The current version of the American Health Care Act could take away health insurance coverage from millions. The AMA cannot support it.

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AMA President Andrew W. Gurman, MD
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As physicians, we must speak up for our patients

Speaking to physicians in Washington, D.C., AMA President Andrew W. Gurman expressed the role of physicians in the thick of the national health reform debate.

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Judge behind bench banging his gavel.
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Fighting together, physicians foil insurance Goliaths

Federal judges block both insurer megamergers capping 18 months of physician efforts that paid off.

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Doctors against health reform? Not so fast

The AMA has forcefully advocated universal coverage for a decade, and we should not lose the gains made in expanding the health insurance rolls.

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