Year: 2015
Resolution Number: 71
Action Taken: Disapproved
Status:
Author(s): Cheryl Farmer, MD
Sponsor: Cheryl Farmer, MD
On behalf of:
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS oppose “Concierge Medicine” and work with the medical schools in Michigan to formalize what had previously been an implied social contract by requiring medical students to enter into a contract to treat all patients regardless of their social, financial or combat status once they begin practice and to repay the full costs of their taxpayer subsidized education plus a penalty if they later restrict access to their practices; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the American Medical Association oppose “Concierge Medicine” and advocate that all federation members work with their respective medical schools to formalize what had previously been an implied social contract by requiring medical students to enter into a contract to treat all patients regardless of their social, financial or combat status once they begin practice and to repay the full costs of their taxpayer subsidized education plus a penalty if they later restrict access to their practices.
RESOLVED: That MSMS oppose “Concierge Medicine” and work with the medical schools in Michigan to formalize what had previously been an implied social contract by requiring medical students to enter into a contract to treat all patients regardless of their social, financial or combat status once they begin practice and to repay the full costs of their taxpayer subsidized education plus a penalty if they later restrict access to their practices; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That the American Medical Association oppose “Concierge Medicine” and advocate that all federation members work with their respective medical schools to formalize what had previously been an implied social contract by requiring medical students to enter into a contract to treat all patients regardless of their social, financial or combat status once they begin practice and to repay the full costs of their taxpayer subsidized education plus a penalty if they later restrict access to their practices.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Discouraging the Proliferation of "Concierge Medicine"