AAMC-Supported Legislation
Health Care Innovation Zones
Rep.
Schwartz Introduces Legislation to Establish AAMC-Proposed
Health Care Innovation Zones (News Release - July 10,
2009)
The proposal would create test zones with select academic
medical centers and community partners and experiment with
alternative payment structures and new models of cost-effective,
quality health care.
Health Care Innovation Zone Program
Act of 2009
(PDF, 2 pages, Summary - July 2009)
Graduate Medical Education Reforms
AAMC-Backed
Bill to Improve Access, Reduce Physician Shortage Introduced
in Congress (News Release - May 5, 2009)
AAMC
Support and Thank you letter for the "Resident Physician Shortage
Reduction Act of 2009" (PDF, 1 page, May 2009)
Resident Physician
Shortage Reduction Act Press Briefing
(Podcast, MP3 audio, 24 mins.)
Resident Physician Shortage
Reduction Act of 2009
(PDF, 2 pages, Summary - July 2009)
On The Record
Mayo
Clinic Faulted for Limiting Medicare Patients
(The Washington Post, October 13, 2009)
Health
Bills In Congress Won't Fix Doctor Shortage
(Kaiser Health News, October 12, 2009)
Kirch
and Miller: How Academic Medicine Can Help
(The Washington Post Second Opinions, September 22, 2009)
To
Teach
(Emory Health, Op-Ed by Darrell Kirch - July 2009)
Health
Care Reform 2009: Do We Know What We Don't Know?
(Roll Call, Op-Ed by Atul Grover and Michael Johns - July
27, 2009)
AAMC
Supports Hospital Agreement on Health Care Reform (News
Release - July 8, 2009)
By voluntarily accepting reduced market increases in hospital
payments over the next decade, hospitals will contribute $100
billion toward the funding needed to provide care for all
Americans.
Primary
Care Doctors
(The Diane Rehm Show, NPR/WAMU - July 1, 2009)
AAMC
Issues Health Care Reform Principles (News Release
- Oct. 28, 2008)
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AAMC Position Statements
Principles
for U.S. Health Care Reform: A Guide for Policy Makers
(PDF, 11 pages, Report - October 2008)
AAMC's
Principles for Reform of U.S. Health Care: A Guide for Policymakers
(Podcast, MP3 audio, 14 mins.)
Medical
Home Position Statement (PDF, 5 pages, Report - March
2008)
The AAMC adopted a new model of patient care known as
the "medical home" that offers a viable alternative to
the health care system's current system of jumbled provider
networks.
AAMC Correspondence
COD-COTH
Letter to Congress
(PDF, 11 pages, July 2009)
AAMC
Letter to Speaker Pelosi on Geographic Variations in Spending
(PDF, 2 pages, July 2009)
AAMC
Comments on Tri-Committee House Health Care Reform Discussion
Draft (PDF, 19 pages, July 2009)
The health reform draft includes various proposals on graduate
medical education, Medicare physician payment reform, and
an initiative to reduce "potentially preventable" hospital
readmissions, among other measures.
AAMC
Letter to Congress on Healthcare Reform (PDF, 6 pages,
June 2009)
AAMC
Comments to the Senate Finance Committee: Health Care Delivery
Reform (PDF, 10 pages, May 2009)
Additional
Correspondence
Related Resources
The Physician Shortage
and Health Care Reform
(PDF, 2 pages - July 2009)
Why is There a Shortage of Primary
Care Doctors?
(PDF, 2 pages - July 2009)
Grover:
U.S. Teaching Hospitals Need Federal Support
(Roll Call, Op-Ed by Atul Grover - June 8, 2009)
"Despite
Economy, Health Care Reform Still a Priority for President,
Congress" (AAMC Reporter, January 2009)
Policy
Priorities to Improve the Nation's Health (PDF,
49 pages, Report - December 2008)
AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., submitted
to President-elect Obama and his transition team an outline
of the association's policy priorities to help fashion and
implement solutions to the nation's health care needs.
"Prospective
Health Care and the Role of Academic Medicine: Lead, Follow,
or Get Out of the Way" (Academic Medicine, August
2008)
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Principles
for U.S. Health Care Reform: A Guide for Policy Makers
(PDF, 11 pages, Report - October 2008)
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