Doctors reaffirm support for Obamacare mandate

[ugonow]

Not much of a surprise, contrary to reports otherwise---Doctors reaffirm insurance responsibility stance
.– Tue Jun 21, 10:23 am ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The American Medical Association on Monday reaffirmed its position that individuals should be responsible for buying health insurance, a contentious provision of U.S. healthcare reform.

The health reform law's requirement that everyone buy insurance is facing a legal challenge by 26 states that contend the government cannot compel citizens to engage in commerce.

At the AMA's annual meeting in Chicago, two-thirds of delegates voted to uphold the group's policy supporting individual responsibility for purchasing health insurance.

Key insurance market reforms, such as ending denials of coverage based on pre-existing conditions, are only possible through broad participation in the health insurance market, said AMA President Dr. Cecil Wilson.

"The AMA's policy supporting individual responsibility has bipartisan roots, helps Americans get the care they need when they need it and ends cost shifting from those who are uninsured to those who are insured," Wilson said.

President Barack Obama in 2009 took his healthcare campaign to the annual meeting of the influential AMA, which represents 250,000 doctors and has historically been opposed to a bigger government role in healthcare."


www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/21/us-health-insurance-idUSTRE75K3MC20110621

[marshabar1]

OOOH OOOH!! Were they wearing the white coats this time???

[ugonow]

I doubt it,Marsha.That was a photo op. The AMA would not resort to that,imo.

[marshabar1]

Well how can they be taken seriously if they don't wear their white coats??


I don't trust their love for ObamaWeinercare if they aren't wearing white coats. How do we know they're even doctors??

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

The AMA does not represent the entire medical profession.

I've never heard the AMA's position on medicare and medicaid underpaying physicians? Anyone know what it is?
Also how do they stand on physicians now refusing to take on new medicare/medicaid patients?