Advocacy

TAKE ACTION! Protect Abortion Providers from Texas Vigilante Citizen “Bounty Hunters” Urge Congress to Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act

AMSA Stands for Science, the Health of Our Patients & Colleagues, & the Health of Our Democracy ___________________________________________________________________________________________   AMSA Opposes New Texas Anti-Abortion Law and Enforcement by Vigilante Citizen “Bounty Hunters” AMSA believes reproductive health services are essential to comprehensive health care and we support full access to the entire range of reproductive health...

What will the 2021-2022 MATCH look like?

By Thomas Pak, Adrianna Diviero, Donato Mignones, Erum Chowdhry  This piece is one of a series of AMSA Medical Education pieces for 2021-2022. Learn more about the Medical Education Team and get updates here!  COVID-19 changed the MATCH. What’s next? COVID-19 drastically affected medical education and residency application for 2020-2021. Students were not allowed to...

The Health Equity Legacy of Medicare and Medicaid

Author: Pharis Sasa, MSIII Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, 2021-2022 REACH Chair The history and continued impact of Medicare and Medicaid Fifty-six years ago today, then President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. These two pieces of legislation are rightly remembered as the most consequential reforms to the American way of...

To fix drug costs, stop Big Pharma price-gouging and tax-dodging

Written by Hannah Hendrix, AMSA National President, published in the Ohio Capital Journal, May 27, 2021 I’m studying at The Ohio State University to become a doctor because I want to help people. Unfortunately, far too many Americans today are confronting skyrocketing prescription drug costs that prevent them from following their doctor’s advice because they...