Doctors’
Vote Is Bad News For Consumers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 24, 1999
CONTACT: Carrie Tydings
(202) 824-1786
The following statement was released today by Chip Kahn, president of
the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA):
HIAA is deeply concerned about the ramifications of the American
Medical Association’s decision today to allow its doctors to engage in
collusion. In conjunction with proposed legislation, today’s AMA vote
could, in fact, increase health insurance premiums by up to 11 percent and
add at least two million Americans to the rolls of the uninsured.
As the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice note,
doctors currently can discuss quality of care issues with health plans.
The notion that unions are necessary to assure quality healthcare is
little more than a smokescreen designed to obscure the true beneficiaries:
the physicians themselves.
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