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Doctors Require Assistance from the Government

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. Years ago another national health care plan was proposed and was rejected by Congress after being the center of a controversial debate between those in the medical profession, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, but this time many physicians are on board with health care reform ideas.

The physicians note that the Congress supported prescription drug benefit that was supposed to benefit the elderly and disabled is really little more than a means to shift more of the pie to private companies and does not protect consumers. The physicians would enact a single payer system, basically a more extensive version of Medicare, the government-run health care initiative for disabled and elderly people.

Organizations designed for Health Maintenance which seemed like the only bright spot for health care, actually raised the cost of Medicare into the billions of dollars, and have lost the public's respect of time. For-profit hospitals, created with the promise of better health care at lower costs, instead have put profits ahead of health. Doctors contend that pharmaceutical companies and drug manufacturers, which have made the largest profits and also paid the least amount of taxes in the past, sell medicine at a rate that most people can't afford even though they need them. One of the original proposals that advocated the single payer system was written up in the 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. The single payer system is not only the best choice, it is the only possible choice.

The current President of the American Medical Association released an official statement from the organization maintaining their opposition to the single payer plan. He says that if the United States ends up bringing in the single payer system, that would more than make up for the problems now plaguing the current system in place in the U.S. Declining maintenance of facilities, lag in technology, creation of a major bureaucracy that will take away patients' and doctors' authority in medical decision, and an increase in the wait time at medical offices, are all side effects that the president of the AMA believes will result from the single payer system.

The organization responsible for lobbying for the managed care industry, the American Association of Health Plans, also finds, that the single payer system that the doctors put forth, which will mean an end to health maintenance organizations and for profit hospitals, is unsatisfactory. 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. However, as one physician stated, many doctors who were opposed to government sponsored health care programs in the past would now, in the current economy and health care crisis, support and endorse a national health care program for all Americans.
By : Eddy Clifton    Five stars rating
Submitted 2010-10-09 10:30:24

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