AAPS Affirms Opposition to Single-Payer Medicine

10/8/08

AAPS members unanimously voted unanimously to re-affirm the AAPS Resolution to Oppose a Single-Payer Medical System at the 65th Annual Meeting in Phoenix on September 13, 2008.

The vote was to affirm Resolution 2003-1, “Resolution opposing single-payer medical system” that was originally passed unanimously in 2003. It states that medical care is not an entitlement that can be granted by the state, that AAPS will oppose all initiatives to impose such an entitlement, and urges all physicians to do the same in the best interest of their patients.

“In this election year, they thought it was important to remind the politicians why socialized medicine has failed in the past, and will fail in the future,” said Kathryn Serkes, Director of Policy and Public Affairs for AAPS.

In that resolution, AAPS urges all physicians to oppose a government-controlled or single-payer plan as harmful to patients, and therefore inconsistent with a high standard of medical ethics.

• READ AAPS RESOLUTION OPPOSING SINGLE-PAYER MEDICAL SYSTEM
• READ RESOLUTION OPPOSING GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN MEDICINE
• READ AAPS ANALYSIS OF IMPACT OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE