Doctors support single-payer plan

American health care is now largely delivered via a government-subsidized private health insurance industry operating parallel to and within Medicare. A recent nationwide poll of physicians published in the Annals of Internal Medicine utilizing the AMA physician database demonstrated that 60 percent of doctors support a single-payer national health plan based on the most efficient and effective Medicare system.

This national health plan currently before Congress (HR 676) would provide medical care and low-cost prescription drugs to all Americans - including the 47 million uninsured and 50 million underinsured citizens - while maintaining the private-practice quality of physicians, hospitals, clinics and therapists.

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