Physicians Require Financial Assistance from the Government
By: Melisa jones
Submitted: 2010-08-21 09:46:54 | Word Count: 622
There are thousands of American based physicians are now making it known that they would like to see government backed national health insurance, which they want to see cover every American's health care needs and should save billions as well. 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 think that if Congress established a prescription drug benefit for the disabled and elderly, it would only benefit private customers and consumers wouldn't see much of a difference. 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.
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Health maintenance groups, initiated mainly as health care's exclusive opportunity, have increased the expenses of Medicare by billions of dollars, and they have failed miserably in raising the public's respect. Although investor owned hospitals seemed like they would be more efficient, they've been sullied 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. This outline of a single payer system first was published in the esteemed journal of medicine.
Many of the physicians who are boldly calling for a national health insurance program are being led by two former surgeons general and the former editor of a top American medical journal. It has been pointed out by a lecturer from Harvard Medical School the current system is obviously self-destructing and will not be able to continue the way it has been. It isn't that a singer payer system is the most valuable choice, but it happens to be the only one at all.
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 asserts that there would be a myriad of distressing new issues, that we would have to face, by instituting a single payer system, it would mean trading off one problem for an whole group of problems that are equally as serious. He noted that problems with the single payer system include that it might take a long time to receive health care, facilities might not have the latest technology or may become dilapidated, and that a large bureaucracy might take over that may make it difficult for physicians to give the best advice to their patients.
The lobbying branch of the managed health care profession, the American Association of Health Plans, additionally reported that it does not support the doctor's proposal because it would extirpate profit for health maintenance groups and hospitals. The American Medical Association states that the doctors who support the proposal for a single payer system, represent less than one percent of the hundreds of thousands of doctors in this country. However, another doctor has suggested that it is important to note that there are a significant number of doctors now in support of a government health care program who at one time were in opposition to it.
