Famous Legislation
Full name of the blockbuster health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
"This" serves as an indispensable tool in redressing the imbalances in medical education where representation among healthcare providers remains notably low for Black, Latino/x, American Indian, and Alaska Native communities on a national scale.
What is Affirmative Action?
The approximate median total medical student debt at graduation (answer within $10,000).
What is ~$200,000
In 1967, this was the first state to reform its abortion law based on the American Law Institute recommendation
What is Colorado?
This legislation (1997) provides health coverage to children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage.
What is Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
"These partnerships" are integral to addressing legal needs which often times impact morbidity, mortality, and health outcomes, and SNMA is thus in full support of the continued development and expansion of said partnerships.
What are medical-legal partnerships (MLPs)?
This legislation capped the number of residency positions that Medicare would fund, which had lasting implications for the growth of residency programs and the overall number of residents in the U.S.
What is the Balanced Budget Act (1997)?
In 2024, the US Surgeon General declared this to be a public health crisis!
What is firearm violence?
What Region III states have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (name 2 out of 3)?
What are Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Texas?
Name of the court case that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?
"Complete abolition of the criminal justice system as it stands today" is one of SNMA's proposed solutions to what problem?
What is Mass incarceration?
The approximate total cost of training a medical resident for a year (answer within $10,000).
What is $100,000
Name a state in which medical marijuana is NOT legal
What are Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Wyoming?
What Region III state is home to the first atomic bomb test?
What is New Mexico?