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  • Press Release

    AAMC Statement on Senate-passed Reconciliation Bill

    Media Contacts

    Stuart Heiser, Senior 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 passed by the U.S. Senate and soon to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives: 

    “The reconciliation bill passed by the Senate would cut more than $1 trillion from the Medicaid program over the next decade and, according to the Congressional Budget Office, leave 11.8 million people without health care coverage. This alone warrants rejecting the legislation, to say nothing of the bill’s other health and higher education provisions that would further harm communities and exacerbate workforce shortages.  

    We again urge the House to reject these harmful proposals that cut Medicaid funding, reduce access to health care, and limit federal student financial aid for aspiring doctors. These policies would make it harder for patients and communities to obtain high-quality care – especially those in rural and underserved areas. Instead, we call on leaders to work with the heath care community to pursue policies that meaningfully protect the health of the American people and sustain and strengthen our nation’s health care infrastructure.” 


    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.