The American Medical Association Opposes Nationalized Health-care

  It looks like the president’s plan to socialize the health-care industry will have a major opponent— the American Medical Association.

  Here is what the A.M.A. had to say about a government run health-care plan:

The A.M.A. does not believe that creating a public health insurance option for non-disabled individuals under age 65 is the best way to expand health insurance coverage and lower costs. 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 A.M.A. sees this plan as increasing the cost of health-care with the burden falling once again on you and I — the taxpayer.

the corresponding surge in public plan participation would likely lead to an explosion of costs that would need to be absorbed by taxpayers

    This is a major organization and could be a major obstacle for the president to overcome if he is to take over the health-care industry. The government already runs Medicare and Medicaid and we see how well those programs are doing, they will soon run out of money. And we are now supposed to trust the government to run health-care?

  This is a disaster waiting to happen and we just learned today that the plan that the house is drafting will cost over $1 trillion and will include $600 billion in new taxes.

  Who the hell do you think is going to pay for this free health-care? It is pretty obvious to me that in addition to providing health-care coverage to my family I will also be providing it to families that I don’t know who will not go out and provide for their own families. It is not my responsibility to provide health-care coverage to others, and it is not your responsibility either. It is the responsibility of the individuals and the families to insure that they are provided for.

  The more money that the government takes away from me in taxes, the less money that I have to provide for my family; perhaps that is the true goal here. The president likes to talk about what is fair, but I would ask him, “how is it fair to me to take money away from my family?”

  Hopefully the A.M.A. still holds some sway and is able to help us derail this horrible idea before it is too late. We need to hold off this legislation until 2010 and then hopefully we will be able to kill it for good. That is why the president is in such a rush to push this entitlement through, he knows that he is on borrowed time.