Expanding health insurance coverage and choice: The AMA Proposal for reform

The AMA proposal for coverage and choice was developed 10 years ago and has been refined over the decade. Below are a series of publications that explain the reform proposal behind the AMA “Voice For The Uninsured” campaign.

The first item is a new booklet that describes the AMA proposal for expanding health insurance coverage and choice in a fresh and concise manner, and includes the most recent refinements. The 10-page booklet focuses on the three pillars of the AMA proposal:

1. helping people buy health insurance through tax credits or vouchers,
2. individual choice of health insurance, and
3. fair rules of the game—regulating markets and protecting high-risk patients.

Following the new booklet are a series of short summaries that provide additional detail and address additional topics related to the AMA proposal. Note that the summary on administrative costs challenges the common fallacy that a government-run, single payer health care system would provide more efficient and less costly coverage than the private sector.

The final document on this page is the 2007 booklet describing the AMA proposal. It is more comprehensive than the new booklet.

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, 85KB)

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.