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Caring for patients in the shadows
This issue also covers suicide prevention, e-consultations, and new treatments for migraines.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/10/caring-for-patients-in-the-shadows.htm
1 Oct 2018
Deciding which advocacy issues are ‘in our lane’
ACP asks four essential questions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/10/deciding-which-advocacy-issues-are-in-our-lane.htm
1 Oct 2019
What the Trump administration can learn from Obama
The idea that the GOP can come up with a quick and easy plan to replace the ACA is just not realistic. It is going to be a hard slog, not a sprint.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/01/washington.htm
1 Jan 2017
The 2020 election and the future of health care
Regardless of the election outcome, it will take determination to make ACP's vision of “Better Is Possible” a reality moving forward.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/10/the-2020-election-and-the-future-of-health-care.htm
1 Oct 2020
Merger memories and abiding realities
Several of the issues that ACP is championing in 2018 live up to a vision created 20 years ago, when the organization merged with the American Society of Internal Medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/07/merger-memories-and-abiding-realities.htm
1 Jul 2018
Why ACP must speak out against discrimination
While the country has surely made enormous progress in the past half-century in advancing equality and diversity, it's important to remember history when we consider the medical profession's obligation now to challenge discriminatory policies.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/10/why-acp-must-speak-out-against-discrimination.htm
1 Oct 2017
Improving health of patients, practice environment
ACP's advocacy goals address improving payments to internists' services, reducing administrative tasks imposed on them, blocking insurance mergers, streamlining Medicare's Quality Payment Program, and much more.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/03/improving-health-of-patients-practice-environment.htm
1 Mar 2018
Improving the practice environment and payment reform
Recent examples and accomplishments of ACP advocacy toward improving the practice environment include increasing payments to internists, reducing administrative burdens, promoting continuity of care and access to physicians, and reducing the costs of prescription drugs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/11/presidents.htm
1 Nov 2015
All health policy is political, as it must be
The very nature of ACP advocacy involves participating in politics and the political process.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/02/all-health-policy-is-political-as-it-must-be.htm
1 Feb 2019
ACP's Washington office reviews its own ‘seven days in May’
A recent week provides a great example of how ACP's Washington office supports College advocacy.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/07/washington.htm
1 Jul 2013