Congressional Budget Office Scoring of American Health Care Act Late yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its report providing estimates of the impact the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would have on federal spending, the health insurance market, and the number of Americans with health care coverage. See a summary of the report, as well as the AMA’s statement in response. March 14, 2017 AMA AHCA, AMA, CBO 0 0 Comment Read More »
Health Reform Update The House Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce completed consideration of draft reconciliation legislation. The Ways and Means committee considered the bill for approximately 18 hours while the Energy and Commerce committee meeting lasted more than 27 hours. In the end, neither bill was amended significantly and the committees forwarded their final recommendations to the House Committee on the Budget so that final House reconciliation language can be reported next week. March 10, 2017 Health Care Reform Health Reform Update 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA Op-Ed: American Health Care Act won’t help patients access doctors or receive affordable, quality care Op-ed by CMA President, Ruth Haskins, MD in response to the American Health Care Act. CMA is concerned that millions of Californians will lose coverage because of the Medicaid cuts and because the private tax-credits are age-based, not income-based, making insurance unaffordable for low-moderate income families. March 9, 2017 CMA ACA, AHCA, American Health Care Act 0 0 Comment Read More »
AMA says American Health Care Act is Critically Flawed In a letter to congressional leaders, the AMA today outlined provisions of the American Health Care Act that would have an adverse impact on patients and the health of the nation. Largely due to the decline in health insurance coverage the bill would likely cause, the AMA is unable to support the AHCA as drafted. March 8, 2017 AMA ACA, AHCA, AMA 0 0 Comment Read More »
What regulations limit your ability to serve your patients? Tell CMA now! HHS Secretary Price is asking state medical associations for their wish list of regulations that are outdated or hurt doctors’ ability to expand their medical practice to serve more patients. SFMS/CMA members are invited to contribute comments. March 7, 2017 CMA, Politics and Medicine CMA, HHS, regulations 0 0 Comment Read More »
