You can’t pick up a paper or turn on the television set without hearing about national “health system reform, universal health care, or the Obama plan.” It is critical that our patients know that their physicians are at the table as well. TMA is on top of the discussions and we are analyzing the different Congressional plans. More importantly, TMA is shaping its own Texas-style health care reform package. We believe that any health system reform must put the needs of our patients first.

TMA will travel across the state co-hosting town hall meetings, aka for “House Calls,” with county medical societies. Our goal is visit at least 10 communities while our U.S. representatives are back in Texas during the August recess.

TMA wants to have a candid discussion with Texas patients. We want to hear firsthand what they think about our health care system and about our plan. The only way to accomplish that task is by listening to our patients. That is why TMA is making a House Call in your community.

Please join TMA. Attend one of the House Calls in your community and bring your patients.

TMA “House Call” Town Hall Meeting Schedule

If you would like to co-host a TMA “House Call” in your community please call Pam Udall, director of Media Relations and PR at (512) 413-6807.

Articles and Reports

• Summary - HR 3590: Health System Reform Bill (PDF)
• Obama Still Wants Health System Reform (Jan. 28, 2009)
• Member Survey: TMA Right on Health Reform (Action, Dec. 15, 2009)
• TMA Can't Support Senate Reform Bill (Action, Dec. 1, 2009)
• Major Differences between the House and Senate Health Care Bills (PDF, Prepared by Tri-Committee House staff; budget and coverage from the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint Committee on Taxation)
• Texas Doctors: “Senate Health Plan Bad Medicine for Our Patients” (Nov. 21, 2009)
• TMA Offers Congress Insights on Reform (Action, Oct. 2, 2009)
• Health Reform 'Health Calls': TMA Meetings Help Physicians, Patients Shape Debate (Texas Medicine, Oct. 1, 2009)
• TMA, California Medical Association suggest improvements (PDF) to Senate Finance Committee health system reform bill (Sept. 21, 2009)
• AMA: Our Vision for Health System Reform
• AMA Defines Seven Health Reform Principles (Action, Sept. 15, 2009)
• Foundation Says HSR Balloons Health Cost (Action, Sept. 15, 2009
• Take Your Health Care Concerns to the Top
• TMA Expands Health Reform House Calls (Action, Sept. 1, 2009)
• TMA Launches Health System Reform Campaign (Action, Aug. 3, 2009)
• Take Your Health Care Concerns to the Top (Action, Aug. 3, 2009)
• TMA "Deeply Troubled" by House Health Reform Bill (Action, July 17, 2009)
• Border Health Caucus Response to The New Yorker Article: "The Cost Conundrum" (July 6, 2009)
• Ten Questions for Health System Reform (June 18, 2009)
• TMA Reform Must Provide Patient Access While Protecting Freedoms (June 17, 2009)
• Obama Touts Health Reform at AMA Meeting (Action, June 16, 2009)
• President Obama Brings His Health System Reform Proposals to U.S. Physicians (June 15, 2009)
• AMA Progress Report to President Obama: Pledge to Reduce Rate of Growth by 1.5 Percent (PDF, June 1, 2009)
• Health System Reform (Texas Medicine, June 2009)
• TMA Outlines Key Proposals to Improve Health Care Financing (PDF, May 26, 2009)  
• Letter to Senator Baucus: Delivery System Reform Policy Options (PDF, May 15, 2009)
• TMA's Health System Reform Principles
• TMA in Washington D.C. (March 6, 2007)
• Federal Stimulus Package Resource Center
• TMA: Your Voice on Health System Reform
• AMA: Summary of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
• AMA's Fact Sheet
• What Stimulus Means to Texas Health Care
• Good Bill, Bad Bill - Action (March 17, 2008)
• Summary of the Health Provisions in the Economic Stimulus Package (Feb. 3, 2009)
• Stop the Consolidation of Health Insurers (PDF)
• 2009 Federal Legislative Issue Briefs
• TMA's 111th U.S. Congress Main Page