MINNEAPOLIS, July 15, 2008—American Medical Association President Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D., responded to the news of President Bush's veto of H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 11, 2008—The American Medical Association has formally apologized to black doctors for a history of racial discrimination.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 7, 2008—The American Medical Association has notified the MMA that Wednesday, July 9, is the day that will likely determine if the Senate can pass HR 6331, the bill already passed in the House that must be passed by July 10 to avoid the 10.6 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 30, 2008—In the wake of the failure of the U.S. Senate to pass H.R. 6331, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an administrative order to stop the promised 10.6 percent Medicare physician reimbursement cut for 10 days.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 30, 2008—The American Medical Association released a statement laying bare some of the misleading assumptions about the effects on Medicare Advantage by H.R. 6331.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 30, 2008—The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services has announced it will give Congress 10 more days, until July 10, to do something about the Medicare reimbursement mess.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 27, 2008—The American Medical Association released a statement in the wake of the failure of the U.S. Senate by a single vote to pass H.R. 6331.

MINNEAPOLIS. June 25, 2008—Nancy Nielsen, M.D. , newly elected president of the American Medical Association, has called on the U.S. Senate to take action this week to pass H.R. 6331, The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, passed Tuesday by the House of Representatives.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 17, 2008—The Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago June 14-17 brought together large numbers of physician members, including a delegation from the MMA, led by Frank Indihar, M.D., who returned to Minnesota inspired and energized.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 19, 2008—As zero hour for implementing the 10.6 percent Medicare reimbursement cuts draws near, a host of state and national specialty chairs of their delegations to the AMA House of Delegates have sent a stern letter to Setaors, describing themseles as "extremely frustrated" with the senate's inability to act.