Posted on 07/17/2010 4:19:59 AM PDT by Scanian
The American Medical Association wants me back -- but it's out of luck until it mends its cheating ways.
The group's revenue is down by $13.4 million over the past year; it expects 5 percent to 7 percent of its 228,150 dues-paying physicians to quit this year.
Why is the AMA hemorrhaging members? Obviously, because of its foolish support for President Obama and Congress' remake of American health care.
In desperation, the AMA membership group is e-mailing ex-members like me, begging us to rejoin at half the usual fee. Sorry: I'm not forking over $210 for the "privilege" of being an AMA member -- even if they do toss in a year of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a copy of the pocket 2010 Physician Desk Reference Dosing Guide and other freebies.
I have no intention of rejoining this ethically compromised organization. As I announced in The Post last August, the AMA lost me because it's become not just an ineffective guardian of the interests of practicing physicians and their patients, but a de facto opponent of those interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Screw the AMA. By supporting 0bamacare, it willingly and completely supports compromising and destroying the quality of health care for patients. IMO, the AMA is the Dr. Kevorkian of the medical industry.
I hope every good doctor tells it to go f-itself.
Once the whole PLAN kicks in, I’ll bet a lot more drop their membership too.
/src on/No problem. Since doctors will be government employees they join the SEIU./src off/
Apparently the AMA failed to receive informed consent of
its member physicians and surgeons —
and failed in Rule 1: DO NO HARM.
If Drs took a few minutes to think it through the membership would drop faster and further. Half the fee is $210 so $420 is a relatively small expense,an afterthought,for a doctor. Small checks like that are paid by staff on autopilot.
The AMA’s actions point out a need for vigilance for everyone belonging to any voluntary organization. Once in your voice is both amplified(the argument these organizations use to lure members)as well as muted. The power structure may or may not,as with our own elected officials,be responsive to the voice of its members. Power indeed does corrupt most completely.
The whores in the AMA thought they were making quite a deal when they got into bed with obama and now they find themselves with a reputation of end stage syphillis. They deserve what they get.
The AMA represents about 29% of US Doctors.
29% of US Doctors is about all there will be left when Obama care ends up screwing them.
They sound like they are self-destructing.
I left this ethically challenged organization
~ 10 years ago
The AMA and the AARP have become
wastes of organized protoplasm
A friend of mine made national news a few years ago when he resigned his membership in the American Bar Association when they took the pro-abortion position. He was the president of our state Bar Association at the time. His statement was that they had no business taking any position.
Dr’s need to go after the state AMA heads to fight the AMA.
“Dr’s need to go after the state AMA heads to fight the AMA.”
Remember, all politics is local. Hit them at home in their own practice areas so their patients know their position on issues. That the problem with centralized control. They are removed from the public and have no accountability.
xactly
I give the AMA a fail..
“If you sleep with the devil ...”
The NRA is on the same path. Does anyone know the meaning of core values, and principle? For those of you still asleep, the progression, is seemingly at light speed. I knew about AARP over fifteen years ago, and that would have been about the time they would have become interested in me as a member.
Judging by their large local rental at the mall and the crowd of oldsters therein, it has to be a social club for democrat seniors. No one with any common sense, could possibly find a reason to belong. The same appears to be true for the AMA.
Of course the AMA supports Obama. The AMA is nothing more than a trade protection organization, a union.
07/16/2010 6:48 PM
There are numerous false claims in this opinion piece, made without evidence to support them, and there is certainly nothing to support the claim of cheating. The AMA voiced its support for health reform because a majority of the physicians in the AMA House of Delegates voted to support health reform, and because the status quo was not working.
The AMA advocates for patients and physicians on the health issues that impact them most - including permanently fixing the Medicare physician payment system. We will not rest until Congress fixes the formula. The AMA has certainly never advised physicians to stop seeing Medicare patients.
Dr. Siegel received our regular mid-year membership renewal offer, which, appropriately, is half the price of a full year renewal.
The AMA is committed to America's physicians and patients.
AMA, AARP, what’s the difference? Well, in one respect they’re the same. They both carry water for Obama. AARP has lost its soul. They are now nothing more than a shill for insurance companies. They do all they can to destroy HMOs, then try to sell supplemental Medigap policies to those who prefer straight Medicare. I’ll never join any group that is nothing more than a servile slave to that fraud Obama. Never!
AMA/AARP/NAACP...witness the anti-individual HEALTH/AGE/RACE collectives. Organizations amplified (like no other in their respective industries) by totalitarian/state-run media to give credibility to the machinations of madmen.
As a matter of fact, AARP was established by insurance salesman Leonard Davis in 1958 who promoted the organization until the 1980s as a non-profit advocate of retirees in order to sell insurance to members. His insurance company, Colonial Penn, is now a giant commercial success and last I heard was still closely tied to the group.
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