Institutional source notes:Physicians’ Action Kit on Health System Reform

 

Title: Physicians’ Action Kit on Health System Reform http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/legislation-advocacy/current-topics-advocacy/health-system-reform-action-kit.shtml

Summary: The American Medical Association encourages physicians to become envolved in the Obama Administration’s healthcare reform and provides a list of articles that give their insight into the problems with healthcare.

Topic: http://cdeross5150.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/policy-question/
Category: Institutional

What is it?: text, Legislation & Advocacy article on AMA website
Publication Information: 1995-2009 American Medical Association
Author: Unknown
Location: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/legislation-advocacy/current-topics-advocacy/health-system-reform-action-kit.shtml
Accessed: 2/22/09

Support: AMA’s Vision For Health System Reform, Health Insurance Market Reforms, Prevention and Wellness Promotion

 

Audience and Agenda: This is intended for physicians of the United States. Its mission is to the betterment of the field of medicine. There are 733 thousand monthly visitors who are defined as being “more affluent, more educated, adult, slightly female slanted”(http://www.quantcast.com/ama-assn.org). The visitors also visit New England Journal of Medicine and medicalnewstoday.com. 

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/hsr-vision.pdf , http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/hsr-medicare-reform.pdf , http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/hsr-health-insurance.pdf , http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/399/hsr-prevention-wellness.pdf

Usefulness: This gives a look at the physicians’ view of what they want from health care reform.
 

Works cited: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-mission.shtml, http://www.quantcast.com/ama-assn.org

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