To: Sir Gawain
The ball game was decided in the 60's, IMO. At that time, the feds were trying to institute Medicare. The AMA, more powerful then than now, could have and should have refused to participate in this government scheme.
Instead, it proposed its own version of 'Medicare-lite' called "Eldercare". In doing so, it accepted the premise of third party direction in medicine. All that has transpired since was inevitable, only the speed at which it would occur was in question.
6 posted on
07/19/2002 5:53:58 PM PDT by
RJCogburn
To: general_re
Hummmm, here's the same point again. Not that I meant to pick on you.
8 posted on
07/19/2002 6:14:43 PM PDT by
balrog666
To: RJCogburn; Gail Wynand
The ball game was decided in the 60's, IMO. At that time, the feds were trying to institute Medicare. The AMA, more powerful then than now, could have and should have refused to participate in this government scheme. Instead, it proposed its own version of 'Medicare-lite' called "Eldercare". In doing so, it accepted the premise of third party direction in medicine. All that has transpired since was inevitable, only the speed at which it would occur was in question.
Well said, and sadly true.
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