Hey Dr. Cecil B. Wilson of the AMA, you stupid f*ck, it was YOUR organization that endorsed Obamacare which INCLUDED a reduction in Medicare payments to docs to make it look like it would reduce the deficit. Now STFU and live with it.
I think AMA membership is down to an all time low because of this. I canceled my membership after being a card-carrying member for 20 years.
I'll muddle through I guess but this is going to kill PCPs. The Dems can't blame this one on Bush (well, they can but they won't get anywhere trying).
Is Dr. Cecil B. a white gentleman? Because in all the gay clubs in Chicago, Obama was known for enjoying a white man when he would get his services. Thanks a lot, Doc.
“Hey Dr. Cecil B. Wilson of the AMA, you stupid f*ck, it was YOUR organization that endorsed Obamacare which INCLUDED a reduction in Medicare payments to docs to make it look like it would reduce the deficit.”
Actually, AMA is learning the price of making a deal with the devil. Obama promised to permanently fix this problem (i.e., spare docs the 21% cut forever, not just 6 months) as a price for AMA not opposing Obamacare. Originally, the fix was embedded in the health reform plan, but because that added more than $200B to the cost of the bill, it violated Obama’s pledges to keep the plan’s cost under $1T and deficit-neutral.
So they stripped out the fix, but privately assured AMA it would get “taken care of” in separate legislation. Needless to say, Obamacare never could have passed over the strong opposition of AMA. So AMA remained silent in expectation of this “doc fix” pay-off after the health bill was passed. But of course, now having gotten what they want, the Dems will predictably NEVER try to permanently fix this problem (since that’s too expensive). Instead, they’ll play the same game they’ve now played for nearly a decade. Every year, they will count on AMA’s desperation to get a temporary fix enacted to extract a maximum level of campaign contributions, they’ll pass a 1-year fix and play the same game the next year. It’s basically “pay to play:” never forget that money is the mother’s milk of politics.