Wednesday, June 14, 2006
CHICAGO - The nation's major doctors group said Tuesday that Americans who could afford health insurance must be necessary to buy it, a recommendation aimed chiefly at young adults who tend to delay coverage.
The American Medical Association accepted the recommendation at its annual meeting; promising to lobby for federal legislation that will mandate health insurance first for people whose income is better than 500 percent of the federal poverty level.
That means the law will apply to individuals who make money at least $49,000 annually and families of four with an income of at least $100,000. Those individuals and families account for about 11 percent of the nation's 46 million uninsured, or even about 5 million Americans, the AMA said.
The policy suggests that those who don't purchase a minimum of catastrophic health insurance and coverage for defensive health services be held accountable, possibly through tax penalties that would make revenue to help lower-income people buy insurance.
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