“Both in Gaza and Lebanon, healthcare facilities have not only been directly targeted, but access to care has also been obstructed, including incidents where ambulances have been prevented from reaching the injured, or deliberately attacked…What is becoming clear is that healthcare workers and facilities are no longer afforded the protection guaranteed by international humanitarian law.”

Joelle Abi-Rached, MD and Colleagues, American University of Beirut, Lebanon in a commentary published in the BMJ Global Health

BUT – a picture is worth a thousand words…

"The BBB’s investment in transitional care and extended management services is the most significant shift in post-acute care policy in decades."
— Dr. Sheila Yoon, CEO, National Transitional Care Association

"For Federally Qualified Health Centers, this bill is a lifeline. We're seeing new funding, more flexibility, and a clearer pathway to value-based models."
— Mark Rivera, Director, Urban Community Health Collaborative

"We’re seeing a massive federal overreach disguised as reform. This bill takes control away from patients and providers and hands it to bureaucrats."
— Rep. Caroline Stokes (R-ID) 

"Value-based care sounds good, but the BBB forces one-size-fits-all solutions onto highly diverse patient populations."
— National Independent Physicians Coalition Statement, 2025

"The BBB fails to address core health inequities—it assumes access to digital tools and coordinated systems that many patients simply don’t have."
— Shira Lopez, Director, Voices for Health Justice

"Instead of strengthening the safety net, the bill makes care harder to access for the very people who need it most—low-income families, seniors, and rural residents."
— Coalition for Community Health Access, Statement on BBB

“…A man wrote me and said: You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, or Japan, but cannot become a German, a Turk, or Japanese. But anyone from any corner of the Earth can come to live in America and become an American. Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, our ancestors. It is that lady that gives us our very special place in the world. For it is the life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next generation and beyond…This is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness…We lead the world because unique among the nations, we draw our people, our strength from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation…”

Ronald Reagan, 34^th President of the United States in his last speech in that role on the strength of America’s heritage as an immigrant nation [NOTE: The entire speech is about 4½ minutes long and definitely worth the watch!!]

“We should measure the prosperity of the nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.”

W. E. B. Du Bois – an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activistwho was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. 

"Our AMA needs to openly and visibly educate the public, which is flooded with disinformation from many sources, including, sadly, people in this administration and in our state legislatures."

Marianne Parshley, MD (Portland, Oregon), the new AMA Speaker of the House and a delegate from the American College of Physicians who urged the AMA to be more visible and public. 

"But here we are in the 21st century with an administration and head of HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] who, as official government policy, is promoting misinformation and the elimination of science." 

Mario Motta, MD (Salem, Massachusetts) spoke to the AMA House of Delegates on behalf of the New England delegation while indicating that he did not want to "bad-mouth" the AMA.