Publications

The following publications present or explain key aspects of the AMA proposal for expanding health insurance coverage and choice. Publications addressing related issues, such as Health Savings Accounts, are also listed. The documents listed below are available in PDF format (requires Adobe® Reader® to view).

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, 58KB)

Protecting high-risk patients (PDF, 119KB)

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, 53KB)

Individual responsibility: Requiring those who can afford it to have health insurance (PDF, 66KB)

Administrative costs of health care coverage (PDF, 68KB)

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.

Struggling to provide your employees with quality, affordable health insurance? (PDF, 122KB)

Your Health Insurance – Your Choice (PDF, 212KB)

Health Care Financial Trends Report: Health Insurance Cost and Coverage (PDF, 566KB)
August 2005

Keeping Health Insurance Tax Credits on the Table (PDF, 50KB)
JAMA editorial on AMA proposal to reduced the number of people without health insurance.

Health Care Financial Trends Report: Health Insurance Costs and Coverage (PDF, 655KB)
Economics of health insurance.

Health Insurance Tax Credits: Comparison of Impact Estimates (PDF, 101KB)