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Sept. 20, 2019: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn more about AMA's testimony for the appeals of Title X gag rule and involvement in a lawsuit that would force physicians to mislead patients.

Advocacy Update
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Sept. 6, 2019: Judicial Advocacy Update

The AMA urges courts to block Medicaid work requirements in New Hampshire and place caps on liability damages in Tennessee.

Advocacy Update
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Striking caps on liability damages will fuel medical cost growth

The AMA and other organizations detail why limits on noneconomic damages are critical to ensuring Tennesseans’ access to quality, affordable care.

Sustainability
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Don’t create unintended loopholes for medical liability cases

Creating new exceptions to Kentucky’s one-year limit on filing medical malpractice lawsuits would expose physicians to limitless legal actions.

Sustainability
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Court again blocks Medicaid work requirements, this time in New Hampshire

Federal judges side with the AMA and patients to block state plan estimated to result in tens of thousands of people losing health coverage.

Access to Care
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Grants will help residents displaced by record hospital closure

Nearly 600 residents and fellows were sent scrambling for new positions after a 500-bed Philadelphia hospital closed. Donations from the AMA and others will help pay relocation costs.

Medical Resident Advocacy
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Aug. 23, 2019: Advocacy spotlight on High court should hear case on site skirting gun background checks

The daughter of a woman who was killed by a man barred from gun possession has sued the website that facilitated the killer's purchase of the weapon used in the crime. Find out how AMA is advocating against site skirting gun background checks.

Advocacy Update
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High court should hear case on site skirting gun background checks

The AMA and the Wisconsin Medical Society are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a case involving a website that facilitates illegal firearms sales.

Public Health
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Court listened to AMA on defining alcoholism as a disease, not a crime

See how U.S. Supreme Court justices looked to AMA policy and research to change its views toward alcoholism and other alcohol-related matters.

Public Health