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  • Press Release

    AAMC Statement on Final Passage of the Reconciliation Bill

    Media Contacts

    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 on the final U.S. House passage of the reconciliation bill:   

    “We are profoundly disappointed and dismayed by many of the provisions included in the reconciliation bill passed by the House today. As the Congressional Budget Office has said, massive cuts to Medicaid and changes to state health insurance marketplace exchanges will lead to tens of millions of people losing much-needed health care coverage. Additionally, eliminating the Grad PLUS loan program will affect many prospective medical and other health professions students and worsen the nation’s persistent doctor shortage.  

    Despite these setbacks, the academic health systems, teaching hospitals, medical schools, faculty physicians, researchers, resident physicians, fellows, and medical students that make up the academic medicine community remain a cornerstone of our nation’s health care infrastructure. The AAMC will continue fighting to ensure every patient has access to the high-quality care our member institutions provide. That includes working with the administration and lawmakers to protect and restore critical funding and mitigate the consequences of these damaging cuts across academic medicine.” 


    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.