Government Affairs

On their 54th birthday, Protect & Expand Medicare and Medicaid

By: Ashi Arora, CPH Chair During my undergraduate education, I worked in a non-profit OB/GYN clinic in Detroit, where I helped provide prenatal education and transportation resources to pregnant women. A part of my job was to do in-take, where we would ask the women if they had insurance, and if not we would sign...

Title X Changes Hurt Low-Income and Vulnerable Women Most

By: Megan Hunt, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Keanan McGonigle, AMSA Education and Advocacy Fellow, 2019—2020   In our high-risk pregnancy clinic, I was introduced to a young woman in the eighth month of her second pregnancy. The woman had a number of mental health disorders which complicated care due to her cocktail of...

Speaking up for quality, affordable health care for all

Senator Bernie Sanders opened his announcement of the Medicare for All Act of 2019, “Let me be as clear as I can be. Health care is a human right. Not a privilege.” The American Medical Student Association has outlined support for this idea in its governing documents as early as 1994. For over two decades,...

AMSA Applauds CDC Letter Affirming “Undetectable Equals Untransmittable” for People Living with HIV

By: AMSA’s AIDS Advocacy Network In a landmark letter from Dr. Eugene McCray, MD, Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) have affirmed what many in the HIV community have long known is supported by evidence– that people living with HIV whose viral load is undetectable while...