Reply #11: The AMA was so scared of single payer....

[murphyj87]

The AMA was so scared of single payer that when Tommy Douglas introduced single payer in Saskatchewan in 1962, the AMA CROSSED THE BORDER and agitated and financially sponsored a physicians' strike in Saskatchewan. In a short time, the will of the people prevailed and the AMA withdrew from Saskatchewan and single payer became the law of the province. Tommy Douglas became first leader of the New Democratic Party in 1963 (when the old CCF became the NDP) and in 1966, single payer became national in Canada without a word of protest.