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If you think the American Medical Association (AMA) is a credible group of doctors in white lab coats, think again. The AMA is a private trade association that wields vast influence over medical practices in this country, has found a government-mandated way to line its pockets, and promotes a radical trans agenda. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to eliminate the AMA money grab to protect our families. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes clinicians use to report services to health insurers have become a linchpin in the American health care system. These codes are...

A review will examine reports that officials were "over-exaggerating” the number of deaths from coronavirus. The official Covid-19 daily death toll may never be brought back following an investigation into Public Health England's method of counting it, the Telegraph understands. The conclusions of the review, which was ordered by Matt Hancock after it emerged officials were "over-exaggerating” deaths from the virus, are expected this week. One expected recommendation would be to stop daily reporting altogether and move to a weekly official death toll instead ... a significant proportion of the daily out-of-hospital death toll relates to patients who recovered from...

The U.S. government is using its payment system to control the types of medical treatment Americans get, leading to high medical costs and high mortality. Government Healthcare: Codes That Kill Richard Fleming, M.D. | The New American 16 July 2013 .... Calling a Code The rationale behind using the codes is supposedly to ensure that Medicare -- the government -- only pays for medically necessary services for disease, disability, infirmity, or impairment. The codes, developed by the AMA, are known as the Physicians’ Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) system. But fiscal probity doesn't seem to be the actual reason for...