While CNN reports that the American Medical Association's new president, J. James Rohack, is open to a government-funded health insurance option, others report that the system the AMA now endorses is not a public plan, but the heavily managed private plan that federal employees participate in.

He "told CNN the AMA supports an 'American model' that includes both 'a private system and a public system, working together.' In May, the AMA told a Senate committee it did not support a government-sponsored public health insurance option."

"Rohack, who recently became AMA president, suggested Wednesday that the (Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan) available to Congress members and other federal employees could be expanded as a public option. That would avoid having to create a new program from scratch, he said…