ManusJustus said:
Kasz216 said:
ManusJustus said:
Kasz216 said:
ManusJustus said:
Wrong. AMA supports a public option.
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This has changed since June?
“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 andlower 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.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11health.html
I mean if you've got a later source... then feel free to show it. But as of June they saw a public option as exploding healthcare costs.
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The new president of the American Medical Association, which represents the interests of the nation's doctors, said Wednesday the group is open to a government-funded health insurance option for people without coverage.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/01/AMA.health.care.reform/
I just googled that, so you should look for better sources if you want to know their position in detail. AMA sent a brochure supporting the public option with the JAMA they send to my roommate.
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Funny since said article defeats the point you were trying to make in this thread about Medicare... calling it a program that's going broke and doesn't even pay doctors costs.
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I just googled that, so you should look for better sources if you want to know their position in detail.
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Yeah there homepage is actually quite good on the issue.
They basically want a Public option that works just like private insurance that you would pay for yourself that competes "fairly" with private insurance.
Nothing wrong with that. It would just be a government run company. Which is something I actually think the government should do a lot more of.
I really don't understand the point of it though. I guess an attempt at a "non-profit" insurance company. They basically support a public option that isn't really a public option.
They want an equivlent to the government run banks like Freddie Mae.
All we really need is more standardization in the insruance industry, and a solution for people with prexisting conditions.
The standarization is never going to come though because neither party wants it.
