APhA endorses the concept of national health insurance as one means by which the costs of health care may be controlled and rational order brought to the health care system:

1. A national health insurance plan must recognize that high quality health care is a right of every citizen regardless of their economic or social status.
2. A national health insurance plan must, as a point of departure, provide a health care delivery system which will correct the inadequacies in the delivery of health care.
3. A national health insurance plan must allow for maximum utilization of pharmacists in health care roles.
4. Group practices established under national health insurance must permit pharmacists participation on an equitable basis and not merely as employees of physician-controlled groups.
5. A national health insurance plan should, to the extent feasible, utilize existing community pharmacies as health care facilities.