AMA Calls For Using Tax Incentives To Implement Mandatory Health Insurance Law
AMA on Tuesday said the vote in favor of coverage mandates was a "significant shift" for the group, which previously has "shied away from government mandates," according to the Tribune (Japsen, Chicago Tribune, 6/14). AMA until 2000 backed a mandate on employers to provide health insurance (Bloomberg/Boston Globe, 6/14). However, AMA in a report said, "Society should not be penalized by the potentially costly medical treatments of those uninsured who can afford to purchase health insurance coverage" (Chicago Sun-Times, 6/14). AMA board member Ardis Hoven said AMA will lobby Congress to pass legislation on coverage mandates (CQ Today, 6/13). Jack Lewin, executive vice president of the California Medical Association, said, "The AMA just took a huge step toward supporting universal health care for all Americans. Historically, the AMA has supported voluntary approaches but never a mandate." Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, said, "It's really amazing how quickly the mandate went from an occasional discussion among policy wonks to something advocated by major players, such as the AMA. Broader acceptance of this idea may be the key to government's moving more aggressively to expand health insurance coverage" (Bloomberg/Boston Globe, 6/14). Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies for the Cato Institute, disagreed with AMA's vote, saying that the group "has a long history of sacrificing consumer freedom when physician incomes are threatened, and they are doing that with this tax increase" (Japsen, Chicago Tribune, 6/14). Drug price controls
The delegates also voted against a resolution that would have called for price controls on prescription drugs. Supporters of the proposal said drug companies earn "excessive profits," but opponents said price controls would go against AMA's traditional support of free-market competition (Chicago Sun-Times, 6/14).
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