As stated by many, the AMA does not speak for anyone except a small amount of adminsitrators. A very small amount of docs belong to the AMA, and for those who do pay their dues, there’s hardly a concensus about what they do or don’t “stand for”.
I’ve said it many times, and this notion hasnt taken any traction yet, but it will become evident soon, and that is this: Doctors, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, pharmacies...basically anyone who is in the business of dlivering health care stay in business because of private insurance payments. These contracts are negotiated and are a neccessary element for businesses to stay solvent.
Once a public health care option becomes available, then all the delivery systems...all the doc’s offices, clinics, hospitals etc will bleed and eventually go bankrupt.
Private insurance subsidizes the huge losses that the docs clinics take on caring for Meidcare and Medicaid.
Once that subsidy evaporates and the public sector grows, profitability will be impossible.
A public option will bankrupt all the delivery systems.
Its not if, but when.
This is economic sabbotage and hostile takeover.
The AMA is basically a publishing firm with a hefty government contract to administer the CPT Code System, by updating the codes and re-publishing them every year, and then selling copies to every doctor, hospital, etc, in the country. The gov’t contract to manage the Medicare/caid codes was to bring them on board, so to speak, in the great Collectivist concept...the group doesn’t really have much to do with professional medicine.