Legal Commentary

The AMA opposes Obama's health care plan.

"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."...

The medical association said it ?cannot support any plan design that mandates physician participation.? For one thing, it said, ?many physicians and providers may not have the capability to accept the influx of new patients that could result from such a mandate.?

Full post as published by Althouse on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).