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.
