Health Care Access

Arizona needs bold action, not just promises to make medicines affordable

Op-ed by Jon D. Sussman is a Scottsdale resident, a second year medical student, and a chapter president of the American Medical Student Association, published in the Scottsdale Independent (12/5/2019) Prescription drug costs are unbelievably unaffordable for millions of Americans, including me, a medical student with a long term history of asthma and food allergies...

AMSA National President Joins Call for Lower Drug Prices Now!

AMSA’s 2019—2020 National President Dr. Isaiah Cochran, along with Lower Drug Prices Now coalition Director Margarida Jorge, spoke with a Florida community radio station the high cost of prescription drugs and new efforts to address the affordability of insulin and other drugs necessary for the survival of patients. When patients can’t afford their treatment and...

On their 54th birthday, Protect & Expand Medicare and Medicaid

By: Ashi Arora, CPH Chair During my undergraduate education, I worked in a non-profit OB/GYN clinic in Detroit, where I helped provide prenatal education and transportation resources to pregnant women. A part of my job was to do in-take, where we would ask the women if they had insurance, and if not we would sign...

Title X Changes Hurt Low-Income and Vulnerable Women Most

By: Megan Hunt, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Keanan McGonigle, AMSA Education and Advocacy Fellow, 2019—2020   In our high-risk pregnancy clinic, I was introduced to a young woman in the eighth month of her second pregnancy. The woman had a number of mental health disorders which complicated care due to her cocktail of...