4sight Health January 14, 2026
Healthcare trade associations and professional societies exist for one reason, and that’s to protect the economic interests of members. They’re guilds. They’re unions. Everything else is window dressing.
Last week, the American Medical Association (AMA) knowingly or inadvertently confirmed what I just wrote — and hope you just read — about healthcare trade associations and professional societies. The AMA released a report called Medicine’s 2026 state policy priorities. The report is based on a survey of 51 state medical societies and associations, including the District of Columbia, and 13 national medical specialty societies and associations.
You can download the full 32-page report here. Or, you can download a two-page executive summary of the report here.
The AMA survey basically asks...







