Physicians Seek National Health Insurance
Thousands of U.
S.
doctors are asking the government to provide resources for national health coverage, which they think might be able to cover the health care needs of all Americans while also saving a substantial amount of money.
National health coverage was once met by opposition from the pharmaceutical industry, medical community, and health insurance providers alike.
Past attempts to create this type of program were mired in controversy dooming them to failure.
Now, physicians are arguing that insurance through the private sector is irretrievably broken.
These doctors say that attempts in Congress to authorize a prescription drug program that would assist seniors and the disabled would only give more money to private companies and afford little of value to the public.
What the doctors are proposing is putting a single payer system in place, basically expanding and upgrading Medicare which is the government's current health care system for disabled and elderly people.
Organizations designed for Health Maintenance which seemed like the only bright spot for health care, actually raised the cost of Medicare into the billions of dollars, and have lost the public's respect of time.
The hospital chains that are owned by investors, which had promised efficiency, have been decimated by scandals.
Vending medicines for prices which are beyond the affordable range of the people who require them most desperately, pharmaceutical corporations and medical companies have made the greatest profits while benefiting from the lowest tax rates of all industry segments, physicians claim.
The doctors put forth this single payer system proposal in the highly respected journal of medicine.
Two previous surgeon generals, as well as a major American medical journal's past editor, are among the leaders of this panel of doctors seeking national health insurance.
A lecturer at Harvard Medical School suggests that the current system is broken beyond repair and cannot possibly be sustained for much longer.
He further argues that it is not like the single payer system is the best choice available, it is really the only one left.
But, the present president of the American Medical Association told us in a statement, that the single payer health care system, is something that the AMA is still against.
He has remarked that initiating a singer payer system in America will be like exchanging one issue for an entire series of additionally grave issues.
He made mention of extensive periods of time in expecting health care services, a sluggish response to take on management of facilities and new technologies, the expansion of a sizable bureaucracy that could result in a slowing in the power of patients and their doctors over clinical decisions - all of which are qualities of the single payer system.
The American Association of Health Plans, a lobbying group that has ties to the managed care industry, strongly opposes the doctors' plan on the grounds that it would remove for-profit hospitals and health care groups.
According to the American Medical Association, the physicians who signed the proposal only account for less than one percent of all the physicians in the U.
S.
But one doctor stated that it was encouraging that that many doctors would support a national health insurance plan since doctors have historically been against government health care programs.
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doctors are asking the government to provide resources for national health coverage, which they think might be able to cover the health care needs of all Americans while also saving a substantial amount of money.
National health coverage was once met by opposition from the pharmaceutical industry, medical community, and health insurance providers alike.
Past attempts to create this type of program were mired in controversy dooming them to failure.
Now, physicians are arguing that insurance through the private sector is irretrievably broken.
These doctors say that attempts in Congress to authorize a prescription drug program that would assist seniors and the disabled would only give more money to private companies and afford little of value to the public.
What the doctors are proposing is putting a single payer system in place, basically expanding and upgrading Medicare which is the government's current health care system for disabled and elderly people.
Organizations designed for Health Maintenance which seemed like the only bright spot for health care, actually raised the cost of Medicare into the billions of dollars, and have lost the public's respect of time.
The hospital chains that are owned by investors, which had promised efficiency, have been decimated by scandals.
Vending medicines for prices which are beyond the affordable range of the people who require them most desperately, pharmaceutical corporations and medical companies have made the greatest profits while benefiting from the lowest tax rates of all industry segments, physicians claim.
The doctors put forth this single payer system proposal in the highly respected journal of medicine.
Two previous surgeon generals, as well as a major American medical journal's past editor, are among the leaders of this panel of doctors seeking national health insurance.
A lecturer at Harvard Medical School suggests that the current system is broken beyond repair and cannot possibly be sustained for much longer.
He further argues that it is not like the single payer system is the best choice available, it is really the only one left.
But, the present president of the American Medical Association told us in a statement, that the single payer health care system, is something that the AMA is still against.
He has remarked that initiating a singer payer system in America will be like exchanging one issue for an entire series of additionally grave issues.
He made mention of extensive periods of time in expecting health care services, a sluggish response to take on management of facilities and new technologies, the expansion of a sizable bureaucracy that could result in a slowing in the power of patients and their doctors over clinical decisions - all of which are qualities of the single payer system.
The American Association of Health Plans, a lobbying group that has ties to the managed care industry, strongly opposes the doctors' plan on the grounds that it would remove for-profit hospitals and health care groups.
According to the American Medical Association, the physicians who signed the proposal only account for less than one percent of all the physicians in the U.
S.
But one doctor stated that it was encouraging that that many doctors would support a national health insurance plan since doctors have historically been against government health care programs.
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