[stubernx98]

There are two great letters to the Editor in the WSJ today. One from the President of the AMA spouting utter BS. The other from a practicing Md who says all the AMA is is a bunch of academics, salaried Docs, and union Health care folks. He trashes the AMA and its President of AMA.

[caddie]

They give you AMA membership virtually free as a student, resident, or fellow. It jacks up their numbers and the youngsters play along because they don't know any better.

When you have to pay for real membership, it is awfully expensive, and only the politically inclined (all liberals of course) stay in the AMA.

The AMA is a large insurance broker, which keeps some people in... their group policies are a good deal.

But they are basically commies through and through.

Their journal has devolved into nothing but pseudo-studies about left wing topics (my favorite is the study that came out during the Lewinsky affair that stated that oral sex was not really perceived as sexual activity...LOL). The Editor was canned over that political hack move.

The scariest thing about the AMA is that people think doctors are as liberal as the AMA when nothing could be further from the truth. The AMA does not speak for doctors just as AARP does not speak for retired persons.

Plus, they are really well endowed and probably could conduct their advocacy of left wing causes just as well if the membership dried up and went away entirely.

That is the problem with huge endowments like those left wing universities have... they are so well off that they need answer to no one in their membership. And as soon as they don't have to, they don't.

[a fool in paradise]

People need to listen to Ronald Reagan's speech against Socialized Medicine. It is on Youtube and elsewhere.

Some Senator (R) should read it into the Congressional Record on the floor of the Senate. It is only 10 minutes and could probably even then be pruned down.