The American Medical Association held their annual House of Delegates Meeting in Chicago on June 6-8. LMS member Dr. David Bensema, a past KMA and LMS president, served as our AMA delegate. Among the issues debated and policy developed included:
- Prison inmate and staff should get more health education, training.
- Funding plans to end HIV epidemic.
- Physicians support paid leave to boost health outcomes.
- Homeless people need more help, not stays in jail.
- Doctors issue a wake-up call regarding vector-borne diseases (VBDs) that are on the uptick.
- Health care augmented intelligence (AI) must boost the quadruple aim to move forward.
- Get rid of market barriers to appropriate pain management.
- Innovative models can improve access to psychiatric and other specialty care in underserved areas.
- Take extra care when applying AI in medical education.
- Medicaid should be extended to cover “fourth trimester” and beyond.
- How often do physicians and medical students die of suicide?
- How is GME funding being spent?
- Lifesaving naloxone should be available almost everywhere.
- AMA strengthens its anti-harassment policy.
- AMA principles will further gender equity among physicians.
- Competition prescribed as remedy to wave of hospital consolidation.
- Alternative payment models (APMs) should encourage service to vulnerable patients.
- Physician s living with burnout should not face stigma.
- The ACA should be strengthened, not abandoned.
- Health records of immigrant children should not be given to courts.
- Better data needed to prevent violence against transgender people.
- Time to scrutinize pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) outsized role in Rx drug decision-making.
- Using the right words can help beat the deadly stigma surrounding addiction.
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