Dear AMA, You're saps and a big part of the health care problem

kpete

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:28 AM
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Dear AMA, You're saps and a big part of the health care problem

Dear AMA, You're saps and a big part of the health care problem for not standing up to the insurance companies who run your lives
by Joe Sudbay (DC) on 6/11/2009 09:50:00 AM

The American Medical Association (AMA), the lobbying group for doctors, is opposed to the public option in health care reform:

*** While committed to the goal of affordable health insurance for all, the association had said in a general statement of principles that health services should be �provided through private markets, as they are currently.�
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11health.html

Fools.

It's amazing how much control theinsurance industry has over the medical profession. Insurance company bureaucrats regularly overrule doctors. And, the AMA thinks they should.

more at:
http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/dear-ama-youre-saps-and-big-part-of.html

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get the red out

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:30 AM
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1. Who would buy their lunch?

If not for Big Pharma? How would they get free pins? Who would invite them to conferences about wonderful new drugs?

Not going to shoot the goose that laid the golden egg!

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John Q. Citizen

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:34 AM
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2. AMA represents 15% of MD s at most. Most of them quite old.

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