Internist society sees single-payer as option
December 16th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Washington — The American College of Physicians has endorsed the concept of a single-payer health care system for the first time.
In a new position paper, the organization, which represents 124,000 physicians in internal medicine and related subspecialties, identified a system in which the federal government is the sole third-party payer as one of two reform vehicles to achieve universal coverage. The other is a public-private system that includes a legal guarantee that everyone has access to coverage and that offers health care subsidies to low-income residents.
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