Voice for the Uninsured

Facts:

More than 47 million Americans are uninsured. 80 percent come from working families. 20 percent are children.

The United States spends nearly $100 billion to provide uninsured patients with health services, often for preventable diseases or diseases more efficiently treated with early diagnoses. This burden is shouldered by everyone.

We all need to vote with these issues in mind in November 2008 and help drive change in the American health care system.

The AMA Proposal:

• To provide all Americans with the means to purchase health care coverage

• To give individuals choices to select the appropriate coverage for them and their families

• To promote market reforms that enable this new approach

View the AMA proposal details:

Overview of the AMA reform proposal (PDF, 59KB)

Expanding health insurance coverage and choice: The AMA proposal for reform (PDF, 1MB)
This new booklet provides an overview of the AMA proposal, and explains the three pillars of our proposal in a concise and easy-to-read format.

Strategies to address rising health care costs (PDF, 57KB)

How the government currently helps people buy health insurance: The employee tax break on job-based insurance (PDF, 84KB)

Illustration of how tax credits or vouchers would affect households (PDF, 52KB)

Individual responsibility: Requiring those who can afford it to have health insurance (PDF, 67KB)

Administrative costs of health care coverage (PDF, 72KB)

Expanding health insurance: The AMA proposal for reform (PDF, 930KB)
This comprehensive 2007 booklet includes questions and answers about the AMA proposal, and provides a glossary of useful terms.

View more information related to the proposal