Scott Spiegel

“[T]he American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many other Democrats see as an essential element of legislation to remake the health care system.

“The opposition… could be a major hurdle for advocates of a public insurance plan. The A.M.A., with about 250,000 members, is America’s largest physician organization…

“‘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’…

“The medical association said it ‘cannot support any plan design that mandates physician participation’…

“‘[W]e absolutely oppose government control of health care decisions or mandatory physician participation in any insurance plan.’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11health.html

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