American College of Physicians supports two approaches to achieving universal coverage
The American College of Physicians, the second largest group of American physicians, said Monday that the U.S. should provide universal health coverage and could be either as a single-payer system of health or a pluralistic approach, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The group based its recommendations on an analysis of health systems in the United States and 12 other industrialized nations. BRBRA single-payer system of health care has reduced the administrative costs of a pluralist system, but a system pluralistic offers consumers a choice of more and more support in the U.S., after ACP.BRBRDavid Dale, CPA, said the president, I am not a political analyst. In a single doctor. But I think that is likely to oppose a single payer health care in the United States, according to
Dale, ACP is the largest general interest in supporting a group of single-payer health care system health. The American Medical Association, the largest U.S. doctors group offers no support for single payer health system.BRBRACP system is also recommended to help increase the reimbursement to primary care physicians to prevent deficiency, implement a system uniform sales and increased use of electronic health records card to reduce administrative costs (Burling, Philadelphia Inquirer, 04.12).Reprinted with permission from Kaisernetwork. You can view the entire report Kaiser Daily Health Policy, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at Kaisernetwork / DailyReports / healthpolicy. Kaiser Health Policy Report is published for Kaisernetwork Journal, a free serviceby J. Henry Kaiser Family Foundation. 2005 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.