Posted on 12/21/2009 10:43:04 AM PST by Jim Robinson
My question is if the medical profession is so concerned about people who can't afford health insurance, why don't they simply reduce their prices to the uninsured and or provide charity clinics for poor people. Why should we have to submit to socialism and outright force to please the AMA and guarantee income for their professional scalpers? Are they afraid they will lose some of their precious profits? Why do they feel it's their privilege to rob the taxpayers?
Doctors and politicians must be cut from the same cloth.
“Doctors and politicians must be cut from the same cloth.”
Yes. They serve their own interests first.
the AMA is being blackmailed. “support the bill, or you won’t get your $250B doctor fix”. reid pulled that out of the bill because it pushed the cost WAY over 1 trillion bucks, made it a massive contributor to the deficit . . . and because it was easier to extort the AMA.
The AMA represents about 30% of the physicians in this country and is struggling to maintain that number.
They DO NOT represent the predominant political and professional face of physicians.
well, they are being partially blackmailed, at least. I don’t actually know if they would be supporting the HCR if it wasn’t for the payoff, the it certainly isn’t hurting.
This bill makes health insurance more affordable?
My premiums TRIPLE!
This bill will cost me an EXTRA $5000 - $10,000 per year.
What do I do? Take out a home equity loan to make the payments?
Tort reform, competition between hospitals/insurance Co’s, and ending government mandates are much cheaper than Obamacare.
Professional Associations are like all other institutions that begin for benign and altruistic purpose. Then, like labor unions, certain religious cults and other entities - they gather power by numbers and swerve into malignant monstrosities.
AMA membership will probably not decrease because of this nonsense, but I doubt that the rank & file appreciate this *cover our &&sses* sucking up.
Check your numbers...last I heard the AMA is about 17% of docs.
We ALL serve our own interests first. It is why capitalism works, and socialism fails.
I work in medicine, and I can assure you, that even though not all physicians are socialist liberals, there are a lot of them who don’t understand the implications and role of capitalism in the administration of health care.
I fear they are going to find out, and we are all going to suffer because of it.
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Most doctors are not affiliated with AMA. Just ask your dentist. Mine said, “No way.” At least you can look your doctor in the eye when you question, unlike your politian. Just my physicians maybe, but thought this was norm, like joining aarp or not, both answers are the same “No Way.”
I saw my Dr. this am for checkup. He is not for Healthcare nor is the majority of his fellows. He said and according to him the AMA represents only 17%. In his words the doctors are not happy.
The first thing that I ask when someone is for or against a government program is in whose best interest is it to pass such legislation. The medical profession is supported by the government’s wasteful Medicare and Medicaid programs. It is all about money, especially money in the doctor’s pocket. All this noble rhetoric about how much they care about the poor getting medical treatment is bulls**t. Nothing prohibits doctors from caring for the poor, but they do not want to care for the poor for free. Friend, it is all about money. The medical profession is no different than prostitution—they don’t give freebies.
It's the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943.
Organized Medicine: Do We Need AMA?
Richard R. Johnston, M.D., Chair
Committee on Representation to the American Medical Association
As Chair of the Committee on Representation to the American Medical Association (AMA), I am writing to inform ASA membership of evolving changes in AMA. This article attempts to explain changes that may occur with organized medicine and how these changes could affect ASA and you as an individual physician.
Twenty-five years ago, AMA represented a substantial percentage of American physicians. Today, only 25 percent of active, practicing physicians belong to AMA. Previously, when AMA lobbyists and leadership advocated for physicians, they could claim they represented all American physicians. Today this is not the case. “
25% of Practicing PHYSICIANS. That is about the percentage of leftists in America
The AMA could really give a crap about “affordable healthcare” for “the uninsured”. This is about money. EVERYTHING is always about someone making a lot of money. EVERYTHING.
Woo hoo!! Now that’s more like it!!
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