Accountability

The Texas Medical Association supports:

• The highest professional ethics in caring for patients.
• Empowering patients to take more responsibility for their health.
• Promoting continuous patient safety improvements.
• Assuring that physicians and their patients have the sole authority to make health care decisions.
• Promoting physician accountability and connectivity.

Efficiency

The Texas Medical Association supports:

• Making affordable health care available to all using multiple funding sources.
• Creating value in the health care of our patients.
• Eliminating excess administrative costs.
• Protecting the economic viability of physician practices.
• Using health care information technology to improve the quality of care.

Effectiveness

The Texas Medical Association supports:

• Investing in prevention.
• Providing an appropriate and enduring medical home for every patient.
• Providing portable and non-discriminatory basic health coverage for all Texans.
• Providing clinically appropriate medical care based on sound medical science.
• Promoting a team-based approach to safe and effective health care delivery.
• Investing in the public health infrastructure.

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