The California Medical Association has long fought to expand access to quality health care at the federal and state level, and is committed to pursuing health system reform that:

• sets the doctor-patient relationship as the foundation for our health care system,
• expands access to care for the underinsured and uninsured,
• provides help to low income families to make coverage more affordable,
• funds Medicare, Medicaid, and other health programs at levels to ensure access to care, and
• includes market reforms of the for-profit insurance industry.

CMA physician leaders and staff and our partner county medical societies have been working on these goals with California’s congressional delegation, other key members of Congress, and the Obama Administration. 

Please view the resources to the right for more information about CMA’s health reform principles, CMA’s advocacy efforts, and health system reform legislation. 

We will continue to update these resources as new information is available.  Physicians can also stay up to date on health reform issues through CMA Alert, our biweekly newsletter, and CMA’s In the News, our daily look at issues in the press. 

Recent CMA Alert Articles:

• Health Reform Takes Important Steps to Cover Uninsured, But Falls Short of Ensuring Access to Doctors - 3/22/10
• Health Reform Update - 3/08/10
• CMA Doctors Want Health Reform That Increases Access to Affordable Care; Docs Split on Congressional Health Reform Legislation - 2/08/10
• Fate of Health Reform Uncertain - 1/25/10
• CMA Polling Members on Health Reform - 1/12/10
• CMA Sends Delegation to DC to Lobby for Health Reform Improvements - 1/12/10
• Congress at the Brink of Health Reform - 1/12/10
• Congress Approves Stopgap Measure to Delay Medicare Cuts - 12/21/09
• CMA Clarifies Medical Liability Provisions in Health Reform Bills - 12/07/09
• CMA Heads to Washington to Fight for Improvements to Senate Health Reform Bill - 12/07/09
• U.S. House to Take Critical SGR Vote this Week; All Physicians Urged to Call - 11/16/09
• House Introduces New Health Reform Bills - 11/02/09
• Senate Fails to Advance Bill to Repeal Medicare SGR - 10/21/09
• Highlights from CMA’s 2009 House of Delegates - 10/21/09
• CMA Proposes Health Reform Amendments to Protect Physicians from Increased Liability - 10/05/09
• CMA Voices Serious Concerns About Senate Reform Bill - 10/05/09
• Medical Liability Issues on the Front Burner in Washington - 9/21/09
• CMA Fighting Cost-Cutting Health Reform Proposals that Would Punish Physicians in High-Cost Regions - 9/04/09
• Health Reform Remains Hot Topic Over August Recess - 8/24/09
• Health Reform – Much Undecided as Congress Goes on Recess - 8/10/09
• Health Reform Bill Would Require IOM to Study Socioeconomic Factors behind Regional Medicare Cost Variations - 7/27/09
  
• Congress at Odds on How to Pay for Health Reform - 7/13/09
  
• House Unveils Detailed Health Reform Proposal - 6/29/09
  
• New Congressional Health Reform Proposals Expected in June - 6/01/09

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CMA Press Releases:

• Historic Health Care Vote Provides Opportunities, Challenges
• Health Care Reform Takes Important Steps to Cover Uninsured But Falls Short of Assuring Access to Doctors
• As Vote on Health Care Reform Nears, California Physicians Press for Final Changes to Ensure Patient Access
• Physicians Visit Capitol Hill to Meet with Key Lawmakers on Health Care Reform, Urge Important Changes
• CMA Calls for Meaningful Health Care Reform
• CMA Sends Delegation to Washington to Lobby for Improvements in Health Reform Legislation
• CMA Praises Progress to Cover Uninsured, Calls for More Improvements to Protect Patients
• CMA Applauds House Vote to Put Off Cuts to Medicare
• California Physicians Oppose Current Senate Health Reform Bill and Call for Changes to Ensure Access for All
• CBO Score on Baucus Bill Is Bogus; Price Tag Low Because Access Is Not Protected Legislation Needs Changes to Ensure Patients Have Access to Care
• California Doctors Urge Action on Health Care
• California Medical Association Responds to Recent Remarks by President Obama
• CMA Applauds Obama’s Push for Health Care Reform But Says Huge Problems in Medi-Cal and Medicare Must Be Tackled
• CMA Supports Senate Move to Expand Health Care Coverage
• Health Care System Cries Out for Reform, According to Survey of California Physicians
• CMA Embraces President Obama’s Call for Health Care Reform California Doctors Continue Fight to Expand Patients’ Access to Care