Reports, resolutions await delegates at Interim Meeting

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association's (AMA's) House of Delegates will consider policy changes at a December 1996 meeting that cover such topics as cooperative employer purchasing of health insurance, chemical dependency treatment for employees and physician accounting methods. The delegates consider reports from AMA's Board of Trustees and six councils in making policy decisions. Delegates also review resolutions from medical societies, special AMA sections and individual doctors. Various proposals are outlined.

Management, Medical policy, Health policy

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Tort reform

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association (AMA) is completing a multifaceted and intense campaign advocating tort reform. The AMA's campaign involved print ads, fax messages targeted to physicians and telephone solicitation. Even though Congress has yet to pass tort reform legislation, the campaign demonstrates the effectiveness of the AMA as a lobbying organization. This tort reform campaign should serve as a model for future medical legislation advocacy.

Editorial, Tort reform

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AMA board backs modified bill to ban late-term abortion method

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Association Board of Trustees voted to support federal legislation to ban 'intact dilatation and extraction,' a form of late-term abortion which the group believes might be unsafe. The AMA Board forced Senator Rich Santorum to change some wording in his bill before they would support it. The AMA House of Delegates will consider their Board of Trustee's action at its annual meeting.

Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Abortion & Civil Rights NEC, Abortion, Civil rights

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