The AAMC has urged Congressional leadership to provide more funding for health and education programs in the final federal budget appropriations for fiscal year 2007. In a letter organized by the Coalition for Health Funding, the AAMC and other health organizations requested that Congress appropriate an additional $7 billion above President Bush's budget request for health and education programs, which would provide federal public health programs with the same amount of funding they received in 2005.

In a second letter, the AAMC and other members of the Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition urged Congressional leadership to provide an additional $155 million more than was provided in fiscal year 2006 for Title VII health professions programs, which would ensure that these programs have the same amount of funding they received in 2005. For more information, download the following pdf documents:

http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/healthfunding/
correspondence/011207.pdf and http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/hpnec/
correspondence/011207.pdf .