Physicians Appeal for a National Health Insurance

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Well over a thousand American doctors have requested the government to finance national health insurance, which they believe could cover every last American's current health care requirements while saving countless amounts of money. 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.

Many medical professionals have stepped forward, claiming that the American government has worked to support and pass legislature for the disabled and the elderly that would shift funds to private pharmaceutical companies, yet would be of very little actual value to patients. The proposed program would place doctors into a single payer system, which is actually just an expanded and upgraded version of the Medicare program that is in place now for disabled and elderly Americans.

Health maintenance organizations, which were once hoped to be the beacon of hope for the industry, have done little that turned out to be advantageous as they have raised costs even as their esteem has dropped sharply. The hospital chains that are owned by investors, which had promised efficiency, have been decimated by scandals. Physicians have remarked that drug and pharmaceutical firms that garnered in the most revenue in the past and enjoyed the lowest taxes of all industries sell their drugs at prices that are too high for the people who need them more than anyone else. The doctors put forth this single payer system proposal in the highly respected 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. A Harvard Medical School lecturer stated that the current way of providing health care in this country could not continue without imploding. The single payer option isn't the optimal alternative; it's the only way things can be.

However, the current president of the American Medical Association has stated officially that they continue to be in opposition of any single payer system. He says that if the United States ends up bringing in the single payer system, they will be getting rid of one set of issues and then creating a whole new set. His list included long waits for any health care services, a slower response in accepting newer technologies, facility maintenance, as well as another large bureaucracy that would develop and result in more patients and their doctors losing their authority over any of the clinical decision-making applications, which are all characteristics of a single payer system.

Another group, the American Association of Health Plans, has lobbied for managed care in the United States has also opposed the single payer system proposal, due to its elimination of for-profit health organizations and hospitals. According to the American Medical Association, the physicians who signed the proposal only account for less than one percent of all the physicians in the U.S. The fact that many physicians now support national health insurance for all Americans, is compelling, according to one doctor, as these were the same doctor's that had previously been opposed to it.

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