Obama’s plan for socialized medicine isn’t sitting to well with the A.M.A. The American Medical Association is the largest group of physicians in the country with 250,000 plus members. The A.M.A. is letting congress know now that they intend to oppose any bill advocating government run healthcare.
This could cost you more with Obama
While committed to the goal of affordable health insurance for all, the association had said in a general statement of principles that health services should be “provided through private markets, as they are currently.” It is now reacting, for the first time, to specific legislative proposals being drafted by Congress.
Obama plans to speak to the group on Monday in Chicago of all places. The administration likely sees this as a make or break for his plan to socialize healthcare. I think he’ll do it anyway, the dems probably see this as their best shot for universal healthcare. Unlike, a couple years ago, the elections next year are not a forgone conclusion. In a statement submitted to congress the A.M.A. said:
“The A.M.A. does not believe that creating a public health insurance option for non-disabled individuals under age 65 is the best way to expand health insurance coverage and lower costs. The introduction of a new public plan threatens to restrict patient choice by driving out private insurers, which currently provide coverage for nearly 70 percent of Americans.”
If private insurers are pushed out of the market, the group said, “the corresponding surge in public plan participation would likely lead to an explosion of costs that would need to be absorbed by taxpayers.
Absorbed by taxpayers; there’s a statement we need to get used to hearing.