130.951 Reform of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA):
MSSNY will continue to work with the Federation of Medicine and the American Medical Association to advocate and achieve needed reforms of the many defects of the federal PPACA law so as to protect the primacy of the physician-patient relationship. These needed changes include but are not limited to:
-repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB);
-repeal of the Medicare Cost/Quality Index;
-repeal of the non-physician provider non-discrimination provision;
-enactment of comprehensive medical liability reform;
-enactment of long term Medicare physician payment reform including permitting patients to privately contract with physicians not participating in the Medicare program;
-enactment of antitrust reform to permit independently practicing physicians to collectively negotiate with health insurance companies; and
-expanding the use of health savings accounts as a means to provide health insurance coverage. (HOD 2011-68; Reaffirmed with title change HOD 2021)
