AMA president-elect sees more stresses on stressed-out system: “What is the AMA’s position on nationalized health care or having the government be the single payer for health care?
(The AMA’s concern has been), if you had the federal government paying, you would have the federal government deciding, and patients would no longer have a choice. … The AMA supports everyone having health insurance, but not that the government is a single payer. You need to change the tax code so that as an individual you get the same tax benefit as the employer. If you make more than $100,000, you should be required to purchase your own health care insurance … and if not, you have a tax liability. If you make below $100,000, you get a tax credit … to purchase your health insurance.”
