Tag: American College of Physicians

AMA protests changes to key vaccine advisory committee

Volume 405, Issue 10496
21 June 2025
WORLD REPORT  The organisation, which represents more than 270 000 physicians and medical students, has
been reluctant to criticise the Trump administration’s actions, until now. Susan Jaffe reports.  
After months of relative quiet while the Trump administration overhauls US health and science agencies, the American Medical Association  has had enough.  When Health and Human Services  Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr dismissed all 17 members of the independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, delegates attending AMA’s annual meeting strongly condemned the action.  On June 10, more than 700 delegates approved an emergency resolution calling on Kennedy to reverse his decision [and] required AMA leadership to “immediately” ask the Senate committee overseeing HHS to investigate Kennedy’s actions “regarding his administration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices”.  [Continued here.]
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Medicare for All scrutinised in Democratic primaries

Volume 395       Number 10225     29 February 2020                          
WORLD REPORT  On March 3, 14 states will pick their nominees for the US presidential election. The feasability of a single payer insurance plan is a key issue. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
Anxiety about rising health-care costs— the top issue for Democratic voters, according to recent polls—propelled Bernie Sanders to the head of the pack in last week’s Democratic primary contest in Nevada. Of the six leading candidates vying for the party’s presidential nomination, Sanders, a Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, has proposed the most radical solution for lowering medical bills and reaching universal coverage. His signature policy initiative, the Medicare for All single-payer programme, would eliminate private health insurance, including employment-based plans that cover about half of the US population. [Article compares Medicare for All and the public option proposal favoured by former Vice President Joe Biden; continued here]
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