ACP Endorses Single-Payer Health Care
The American College of Physicians is in favor of a single-payer health care system for the United States.
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.
The ACP likely was influenced by the general deterioration of the U.S. health system, with its 47 million uninsured and decreasing affordability of health care, said David Dale, MD, the organization's president.
Link to American Medical News article
Link to ACP position paper in Annals of Internal Medicine