ACEP is an active force in Washington, DC, working on important issues that affect emergency medical care. ACEP's federal advocacy efforts revolve around one thing: ensuring that life-saving emergency care is there when it’s needed nationwide.
Please see ACEP's 2009 Advocacy Agenda for a complete listing of all issues that the ACEP Board of Directors has approved as priorities in the 111th Congress. See ACEP Letters to the Editor for letters published on national policy issues.
Contact your members of Congress about the myths and realities of emergency medicine to affect health care reform. 
Video Clips: Amendments Offered to Ensure EM Access
Chairman's Mark from Senator Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee - "America's Healthy Future Act of 2009"
Summary List of Amendments to the Chairman's Mark: America's Healthy Future Act of 2009
Full Description of Amendments to the Chairman's Mark
Side-By-Side Comparison of Health Care Overhaul Bills provided by Congressional Quarterly on 9/17/2009
Town Hall Meetings During August Congressional Recess
HELP Committee Draft Health Care Bill
President Obama's letter to Hill Leaders
Berkley/Kirk Letter Opposing Increasing Payments to Primary Care by Reducing Payments to Specialists
Senate Finance Committee Health Care Reform Roundtable #2 - Summary
Senate Finance Committee Description of Policy Options, April 29, 2009
Summary of the Baucus-Grassley Description of Policy Options prepared by Hart Health Strategies
ACEP document highlighting areas in Description of Policy Options that could affect emergency physicians
Letter to the Editor- Swine Flu
White House Regional Forum on Health Care, Burlington, Vermont, March 17, hosted by Governors Douglas (VT) &Patrick (MA)
ACEP Access Bill Reintroduced
"Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 2009"
Right now, ACEP is advocating for the passage in the 111th Congress of the “Access to Emergency Medical Services Act” and is encouraging Congress to hold hearings on the state of emergency medical care in our nation.
Roll Call Ad - February 25, 2009
Other Federal Health and Health-related Issues
HHS Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Demonstration
Wakefield Act reauthorizes Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) program
Physician Workforce Enhancement Act of 2009
Health Items in the Budget Outline for FY10
Comparison of Health Provisions in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (HR 1)
Clarifications of Recent Mischaracterizations of Health Care Provisions in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (HR 1) – prepared by the AMA
ACEP Unveils 2009 Report Card
The grades have been tabulated, and the nation's emergency health care system has received its ranking with the release of the second "National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine."
ACEP Attends Political Conventions, Provides Emergency Physician Perspective
ACEP has joined with nine of the nation's leading physician associations to release a set of principles to reform the U.S. health care system.
