We care so much about your health that we will penalize you if you don't buy health insurance

The AMA cares about you so much that it supports tax penalties for the uninsured. http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/AMA-Supports-Tax-Penalty-for-Uninsured-Americans-11261-1/

A sample of the new "concern" for the uninsured addresses those middle class people who "can afford" health insurance and "choose" to be uninsured. (Massachusetts report link:http://multimedia.boston.com/pub/m/16639343/new_tax_penalties_for_uninsured.htm?pageid=7&match=query,keyword=4)

Why is the AMA pushing tax penalties for the uninsured? Because they know that only a pool of money pays for medical care at its current pricing levels--money from all citizens. By requiring that consumers have health insurance, voila, the number of uninsured goes down, insurance companies are happy, states and politicians are happy, and doctors are very happy. Consumers, however, are losing the leverage of being a risk pool as employers and insurance companies sell the consumer on the virtues of leaving the weakest of our population behind in order to save money--go it alone and save a buck.

Follow what the AMA is doing. The AMA wants to protect its member wallets. There are two ways to do that: increase income or reduce expense. Reduce expense? That would require that the AMA give up the cushy lifestyle consumers provide its members. Increase income? Well, price increases, check. Reducing expense by hiring non-physician individuals to handle much of the day to day "medical treatment", check. Get more insurance dollars for treating patients, check. Now what? Ah, now force those uninsured masses to get insurance so that reimbursements can be greater than they ever would be from a Medicare, Medicaid or any other governmental program. Welcome in---get insured or have a tax penalty. The AMA is powerful--I urge you to go to their website and tell them no to tax penalties for the uninsured.

You can write to them at http://webapps.ama-assn.org/contactus/contactus-submit.do (if the link doesn't go directly there, click on the contact us button in the blue top margin on the right)
Tax penalties for the uninsured (only those meeting middle class income requirements) are another way of squeezing the middle class. Expanding governmental insurance programs for the middle class is the only way that the bulk of American citizens can use their leverage against this exploitation.

You can also support physicians in support of national health insurance (a much smaller group) at:
http://www.pnhp.org/