The AMA Opposes Government Health Plan

The AMA has finally taken a public stand against the government's plan to provide universal health coverage in the United States.  An article in the New York Times, Doctors’ Group Opposes Public Insurance Plan, discusses the AMA's discontent with the plan:

While committed to the goal of affordable health insurance for all, the association had said in a general statement of principles that health services should be “provided through private markets, as they are currently.” It is now reacting, for the first time, to specific legislative proposals being drafted by Congress.

Check out the Conservatives for Patients' Rights site, an opposition group headed by Rick Scott.  CPR is a non-profit group that wants health care reform, just not government mandated health care reform.  From their website:

Conservatives for Patients' Rights is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and informing the public about the principles of patients rights and, in doing so, advancing the debate over health care reform. Those principles include choice, competition, accountability and responsibility. We believe the path to effective health care reform must be based on the patient-doctor relationship and not from a top-down, big government perspective. Anything that interferes with an individual’s freedom to consult their doctor of choice to make health care decisions defeats the purpose of meaningful health care reform.

 

Rick Scott has been featured in Fortune magazine as well: "Who is Rick Scott trying to heal?"  Scott was once CEO of the Columbia hospital corporation.  He was ousted as the CEO in the late 90's, but is back in the healthcare arena with the Solantic Urgent Care centers in Florida.

Solantic is a novel approach to health care: