The American Medical Association says legislation wending its way through the Republican-controlled Congress would “take us backward” as a country by cutting health benefits for poor and low-income Americans.

Meeting for its annual policy-making House of Delegates this weekend in Chicago, the AMA is rallying physicians to thwart the legislation now before the U.S. Senate. Legislation known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that narrowly passed the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives two weeks ago “would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion and that the Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.8 million,” a KFF analysis shows.

“We have to turn our anger into action,” AMA President Bruce A. Scott, M.D. said in a speech to AMA d

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