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AMA Endorses House Dems' Health Care Bill
The American Medical Association has just sent a letter to Charlie Rangel enthusiastically endorsing the House Democratic health care bill, and urging members of the relevant House committees to send it to the floor for a full vote. You can read it here. The letter includes a bullet-point list of what it sees as the strong points of the bill, and while it does not specifically endorse the creation of a government-run plan, it does not critcize the inclusion of one either. The letter does not even mention it. As liberals always remind us when the AMA is opposing their agenda, the AMA does not represent most doctors. However, politically speaking, this will provide a strong boost to proponents of government-run health care. The AMA has just thrown its weight behind the most liberal health care legislation that could conceivably pass into law, and so Democrats will now be able to say that it has the backing of the nation's largest group of physicians, and argue that it can't really be that radical.
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BD57| 7.16.09 @ 12:58PM
Leaving the "for public consumption" stuff aside, how does the doctors' union see this as good for its membership?
giantslor| 7.16.09 @ 5:22PM
Game over, Republitards.
Bill| 7.16.09 @ 6:34PM
Well, it all looks good on paper. Ask, The Boston Hospital Center. They signed on when the state of Massachusetts, went into the healtcare business. They filed suit today because they are 38 million in the red, with 100 million projection in the next year!
Why,because the have to pick up the cost of the indigent care and the state won't.
This is the same as the Obama model, the feds will only put up 57%, the state must put up 43%, you can only control cost in a hospital to a break point!
This all proves one thing that most people in medicine already knew. Just because they are doctors it doe not mean they are smart!
JP| 7.16.09 @ 7:23PM
gaintsor,
Now the game isn't over, and it isn't a game. You and other Libs will soon learn that when you are ill and hospistals will be closed, doctors retired, and you get treated by some foreign educated doctor from Yemen.
The President and the Dems are only concerned about power. The federal government is more than broke, and there just isn't enough wealthy people to tax to pay for Universal Health Care. Americans are about to get blindsided, and will soon learn to true definition of Hope and Change.
Greta| 7.17.09 @ 12:30AM
If you are in business and what you are paid for a service is 20% less than your costs, you will not be in business long. Docs will leave practice and take on other jobs, retire, or go out of business under this plan. That is a fact and we will all pay the price. There is already a shortage of primary care doctors and this will make it worse. So we will not have more people looking for doctors and less available. Businesses will dumpt coverage that costs more for the government brand which cuts their cost and we will be left with crap care. If it is such a good idea, lets see the politicians put their families on this government plan, not their super care they now have. Lets see all federal workers put on this plan. This means that even less doctors will be interested in being a member of the AMA and they already represent a minority of doctors.
martin j smith| 7.17.09 @ 8:01AM
What of the membership ? Did the agree to this or were they asked ? I myself would not know. If they support the AMA in this then they get what they deserve--sadly the public will be shafted and the medical profession will be as well.
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martin j smith| 7.17.09 @ 8:02AM
What of the membership ? Did the agree to this or were they asked ? I myself would not know. If they support the AMA in this then they get what they deserve--sadly the public will be shafted and the medical profession will be as well.
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Occam's Razor| 7.17.09 @ 12:24PM
Well, as a physician I can see one great thing about the Dems' bill---that's when I get to tell patients they can't have this procedure due to their representative, and giggle like Richard Widmark pushing the old lady's wheelchair down the stairs.
Why I DON'T belong to the AMA.
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Lockewasright| 9.14.09 @ 7:53PM
How's this for a representation of 'most doctors'?
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