AMA Takes Policy Stance Against Weakening EHBs

The American Medical Association voted to officially oppose any federal policy that would weaken or remove any of the 10 categories of the Affordable Care Act's essential health benefits, coming as the Trump administration seeks to loosen EHB requirements and congressional Republicans push legislation that would let states change the insurance benefit mandates. The nation's largest physician lobby group also says it opposes any state-based effort to eliminate the EHB categories and protections against annual and lifetime limits and out-of-pocket...