It argued for specific policies that future presidents could pursue in order to improve national health care reform implementation.

A seven-member journal oversight committee was created to evaluate the editor-in-chief and to help ensure editorial independence.

Presently, JAMA policy states that article content should be attributed to authors, not to the publisher.

[17] In 2013, a format redesign moved the art feature to an inside page, replacing an image of the artwork on the cover with a table of contents.

[18] On a February 2021 JAMA podcast a Deputy Editor of the journal proposed that "structural racism is an unfortunate term to describe a very real problem" and that "taking racism out of the conversation would help" to ensure "all people who lived in disadvantaged circumstances have equal opportunities to become successful and have better qualities of life.

"[26][24] Columnists Eric Zorn and Daniel Henninger asserted in separate Op-Eds that the resignation of the two editors was an unfortunate substitute for meaningful conversations about racism and health care,[27][28] and the episode was highlighted as a case study of social media, polarization, and radicalization in Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott's 2023 book The Canceling of the American Mind.