For example, ACP-ASIM strongly supports an increase in taxes on tobacco products as a potential source for funding its proposal. The result is that they have more severe illnesses, experience more suffering, and are more likely to die prematurely than insured Americans. ACP-ASIM also called on America's leaders to begin a serious national debate on ways to provide universal coverage within the next five years. ACP-ASIM is the nation's largest medical specialty organization, and the second largest physician group. Membership comprises more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students.
Internists are the major providers of medical care to adults in America.
A copy of the ACP-ASIM plan for expanding coverage for the uninsured is available online.