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  • Health System Reform Action Center

    • HSR Top Story READ MORE

      Affordable Care Act, TMA's Plan to Find What’s Missing, Keep What Works, Fix What’s Broken

      TMA President Sue Bailey, MD, leads a delegation of TMA physicians, alliance members, and staff to the American Medical Association’s National Advocacy Conference. They're talking to Texas senators and representatives about fixing the Medicare payment formula and problems with the new health care law.

      TMA has compiled a key list of the health system reform law:

      Find what's missing -- what did Congress leave out that they should have put in.

      Keep what works -- make sure that those needed reforms are protected.

      Fix what's broken -- rewrite or eliminate pieces of the law that are anti-patient and anti-physician.

      Have a question about health system reform? Contact the TMA Knowledge Center.

  • TMA Help for You to Survive and Thrive in the New Health Care Landscape

    • Protect Your Right to Choose
      If you’re thinking about becoming employed in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or Non-Profit Health Organization (NPHO) aka 5.01(a), are you contracting away your right to choose your health care liability insurer? Texas Medical Liablity Trust urges you to consider these possibilities and ask these questions before you sign.
    • Preventive Health Coverage Mandates Under Health System Reform
      TMA White Paper
    • Caution: Six Important Points Every Physician Should Consider About Medicare ACOs
      TMA Analysis - UPDATED
    • What the New Health Care Law Means for Physicians Medicare Fees
      TMA Analysis - UPDATED
    • New Health Law Provisions Taking Effect in 2011
      TMA Timeline - UPDATED
    • Ten Things Physicians in Independent or Small-Group Practice Need to Know About Health System Reform
      Just for Your Practice - UPDATED
    • Six Things Employed Physicians Need to Know About Health System Reform
      Just for Your Practice - UPDATED
    • Thirteen Things Physicians in a Large Practice Need to Know
      Just for Your Practice - UPDATED
    • Seven Things Rural Physicians Need to Know About Health System Reform
      Just for Your Practice - UPDATED
    • Six Tax Provisions in New Health Law Physicians Need to Know
      TMA Analysis - UPDATED
    • New Health Law Provisions Taking Effect in 2010
      TMA Timeline
    • Health Reform School Power Point
      We will use the health system reform bill as a catalyst to help us identify what needs to be done … to make sure our patients have access to excellent care … to make sure our practices stay viable  to make sure we have the autonomy to make decisions that are in our patients’ best interests.
  • Congressman Mike Burgess, MD: The Case Against the ACA

    The Case Against Obamacare from texastribune on Vimeo.

    "The Case Against Obamacare" panel with U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess moderated by Scott Braddock at The Texas Tribune Festival September 24, 2011.

  • Full Text and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

    • Read the Full Text

      Read the entire bill, amendments, official summary, and legislative history at Congress.Org
    • TMA's Health Reform Bill Executive Summary

      Prepared by TMA experts, this analysis reviews what the bill does and does not do.
    • TMA Complete Summary

      Use this TMA staff summary of the bill and amendments to find which provision of the law may pertain to a particular question or issue. Then turn to the full text.
    • TMA Guiding Principles

      House of Delegates' guiding principles TMA followed as it made Texas physicians' voices heard in Washington during the debate.
  • What the Supreme Court is Facing

    The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about challenges to the 2010 Affordable Care Act in March. The case involves several constitutional questions about the health reform law.

    Some pretty good lawyers at the new Kaiser Family Foundation have written "A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law." This policy brief provides an overview of the pending case, the key constitutional questions to be decided, and the legal arguments made by the parties involved.

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