Open Letter to Illinois Patients

November 5th, 2009 at 12:00pm Bob Trojan

The Illinois State Medical Society opposes:

• Government-mandated treatment guidelines that interfere with doctors’ clinical decision-making and the doctor-patient partnership.
• A government-subsidized “public option” that would unfairly compete in the health insurance market.
• A “public option” that ties physician reimbursement to Medicare’s inadequate payment rates and/or mandates physician participation.
• A single payor health system. ISMS believes health system reform should improve and expand upon the current public-private system and focus on incremental, evolutionary change.
• Further expansion of Medicaid as a means of covering the uninsured. Given Illinois’ track record of a woefully underfunded Medicaid program, we much prefer subsidies for the private purchase of health insurance by low-income patients.

See the rest here…ISMS

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