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Bookmark or Share- Understanding the Affordable Care Act | What is the ACA| AMAMembership Moves Medicine™. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a comprehensive reform law, enacted in 2010, that increases health insurance coverage for the uninsured and implements reforms to the health insurance market. This includes many provisions that are consistent with AMA policy and holds the potential for a better health care system.
- Why the U.S. health care system should be reformedThe AMA’s aim is to move forward and continue to get more people covered and to provide better access to high-quality care. Toward this end, the AMA vision for health-system reform includes: Coverage for pre-existing conditions. Guaranteed issue regardless of health status. Parental coverage for young adults.
- Confronting Challenges in the US Health Care SystemThe high cost of the US health care system is its biggest weakness. In the US, national expenditures on health care goods and services were approximately $4 trillion in 2020, accounting for an estimated 18% of gross domestic product. 2 High prices for care explain a large part of the difference in spending between the US and other developed ...
- Health reform: How to improve U.S. health care in 2020 and beyondHealth reform: How to improve U.S. health care in 2020 and beyond. Health care remains a major theme in our national conversation. And as we approach the November 2020 election, we will hear a lot of debate about the right path forward to fix what ails our current system. It is encouraging to hear so many people—candidates, policymakers ...
- AMA vision on health care reform - American Medical Association2017 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. In 2017, we released a summary of the AMA health ...
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