Reply #8: Then tell him to get off his duff and [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

try to change the AMA's policy against single-payer, or ANY form of universal health care. The AMA's opposition has been formidable and too many doctors have bought into their bullshit. While he's at it, he can try to get the majority of his colleagues who agree with the AMA policy to join him.

Trying to find a doctor who'll take you if you don't have insurance is an almost impossible task nowadays. Then when you do find them you have to pay upfront before they'll even look at you, no matter what your problem is.

The only way Medicare and Medicaid were finally able to be implemented was when the AMA realized that they could actually make more money with the programs in place and dropped their formidable opposition, which had been the main thing holding up the implementation for years. So maybe if we put it in terms doctors can understand, which is that they'll actually make more money with single-payer, they just might get it.