Medical Associations come together to support ACA

press release

March 27, 2012, 1:20 p.m. EDT

National Hispanic Medical Association Urges the U.S. Supreme Court to Support the Individual Insurance Mandate to Increase Healthy Communities

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The National Hispanic Medical Association joined the American Nurses Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Student Association, Doctors for America, and the National Physicians Alliance in submitting a brief for Amici Curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the minimum coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The minimum coverage provision (also known as the individual insurance mandate) is essential to the Affordable Care Act's provision ensuring that health insurance is available and affordable to the most people. We recognize that if people do not have insurance or this incentive to purchasing insurance, they will continue to delay health care until later stages of illness, showing up at emergency rooms sicker, and increasing the costs of health care services in all our communities.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/national-hispanic-medical-association-urges-the-us-supreme-court-to-support-the-individual-insurance-mandate-to-increase-healthy-communities-2012-03-27