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American Medical Association President Bruce Scott, MD, explains the growing issues with insurance prior authorization impacting patient care and what the AMA is doing about it.

American Medical Association President Bruce Scott, MD, explains some of the key issues facing physicians, including burnout, growing medical staffing shortages, doctors leaving rural areas, increasing patients and declining Medicare payments.

 

Tom Price, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the first Trump administration, says misinformation and growing distrust of healthcare workers and institutions is negatively impacting healthcare and more needs to be done to combat it.