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  • Press Release

    AAMC Statement on House Budget Reconciliation Bill

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    Christina Spoehr, Sr. Media Relations Specialist

    AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and AAMC Chief Public Policy Officer Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, issued the following statement about proposed policies within the budget reconciliation legislation currently before the U.S. House of Representatives that impact access to care for patients across the country, the accessibility of medical school, and the work of medical schools, academic health systems, and teaching hospitals:

    “The AAMC remains deeply concerned by the many harmful policies currently being considered by the House of Representatives as part of their budget reconciliation bill.  

    The legislation passed by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce last week included detrimental changes to the Medicaid program that would result in the loss of coverage for 8.6 million people, limit access to care, and weaken the health care safety net. The final reconciliation package now being debated by the House is more harmful, as it accelerates and increases cuts to the Medicaid program and could also result in roughly $490 billion in Medicare cuts over the next 10 years. These policies will ultimately result in even more people losing access to care than previously estimated. Likewise, the elimination of the Grad PLUS loan program and increased restrictions on medical residents' eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness will make it harder for patients to get the care they need by undermining the ability of future physicians to attend medical school. We also have concerns that a number of the new or expanded tax policies included within the bill would further strain the budgets of academic health systems, teaching hospitals, and medical schools that support critical education, research, and patient care. 

    The AAMC urges House members to vote against the bill in its current form. We encourage the Senate to ensure that any budget reconciliation bill does not damage the nation’s health care infrastructure at the detriment of the health of patients, families, and communities nationwide.” 


    The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving the health of people everywhere through medical education, health care, biomedical research, and community collaborations. Its members are all 160 U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; 12 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals, including Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 70 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC leads and serves America’s medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and the millions of individuals across academic medicine, including more than 210,000 full-time faculty members, 99,000 medical students, 162,000 resident physicians, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences. Through the Alliance of Academic Health Centers International, AAMC membership reaches more than 60 international academic health centers throughout five regional offices across the globe. Learn more at aamc.org.