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In determining the best way forward for the world’s largest health care system, we should recall the ethical imperative to “first, do no harm.” Fixing the imperfections of the ACA will focus primarily on extending coverage to the uninsured, not dismantling the existing coverage most Americans enjoy today.
2017 health care reform objectives The AMA views the discussions about the future of health reform through its mission dedicated to the betterment of public health, medical ethics, scientific evidence and long-standing policies adopted by representatives from over 190 physician organizations.
The council issued another report, “Ensuring Marketplace Competition and Health Plan Choice,” that speaks to concerns that activities on the state and federal levels can lead to market segmentation, with healthy individuals buying low-cost “skimpier” plans and others with more health care needs enrolling in plans that follow ACA ...
This scoping review assesses the association of any provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with 5 types of outcomes, including insurance coverage rates, access to care, health outcomes, costs of care, and social welfare outcomes, among people with criminal legal involvement.
Many US consumers are suspicious of national, single-payer health systems, such as the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and Canada’s single payer system, and associate them with rationing of care—yet think highly of Medicare, even though it, too, is a single-payer system. Private health insurance, of course, also rations care but ...
120+ health care organizations call for Medicare physician payment reform In a recent sign-on letter (PDF), the AMA joined 120+ organizations representing more than one million health care providers and their patients in calling on Congress to take action to address the unsustainable Medicare physician payment system.
Health systems were required to include at least 1 general acute care hospital, 10 primary care physicians, and a total of 50 physicians all located within a single hospital referral region (HRR). 35 These criteria were a consensus decision by investigators in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Comparative Health Systems ...
For example, maternal mortality continues at unacceptably high rates in the US and in many low- and middle-income countries 20,21; national immigration policies that affect the health of adults have spillover effects on children’s health 22; US Medicaid and other nations’ policies on access to care for children affects long-term educational ...
Health systems have the potential to improve the quality and control the cost of care through employing skilled leaders to implement organized processes to improve care, as well as through integrating care delivery, efficiently using information technology, and benefitting from economies of scale and scope.
CHICAGO — In a letter to House leaders, the American Medical Association (AMA) today urged Congress to oppose the amended American Health Care Act (AHCA), as the proposed change would still result in millions of Americans losing their health care coverage and could make coverage unaffordable for people with pre-existing conditions. The AMA ...