| Texas Medical Association - First up is this item:
That our American Medical Association is committed to working with Congress, the Administration, and other stakeholders to achieve enactment of health system reforms that include the following seven critical elements:
· Health insurance coverage for all Americans
· Insurance market reforms that expand choice of affordable coverage and eliminate denials for pre-existing conditions
· Assurance that health care decisions will remain in the hands of patients and their physicians, not insurance companies or government officials
· Investments and incentives for quality improvement and prevention and wellness initiatives
· Repeal of the Medicare physician payment formula that triggers steep cuts and threaten seniors’ access to care
· Implementation of medical liability reforms to reduce the cost of defensive medicine
· Streamline and standardize insurance claims processing requirements to eliminate unnecessary costs and administrative burdens.
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