Abstract

The A. M. A. Hedges

This article presents information on group health insurance. On the subject of group health insurance the American Medical Association (AMA) has planted itself squarely on both sides of the fence. The association is definitely for and against it. Several state medical societies are sponsoring voluntary health insurance and "socialized medicine," while, nationally, organized medicine continues its furious offensive against the existing group-health experiments. Group practice and group payment were "socialism, communism, inciting to revolution." This sudden change of heart or change of strategy coincides so neatly with the indictment of the organization by a federal grand jury for violation of the anti-trust law that it is reasonable to infer that the Department of Justice has the AMA worried.