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AMA delegates back health insurance mandate.(Practice Trends)
CHICAGO -- Individual health insurance mandates, direct-to-consumer advertising, and store-based health clinics topped the list of issues addressed at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.
On the heels of Massachusetts' new mandate that all individuals must obtain health insurance, AMA delegates voted to support a requirement that individuals and families earning more than 500% of the federal poverty level ($49,000 for individuals and $100,000 for a family of four) obtain a minimum level of catastrophic and "evidence-based" preventive health coverage. The new policy calls for using the tax structure to achieve compliance, ...
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