Word: ama
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More interesting than this success story is the necessarily more speculative history of what has been going in Romney's mind. Anyone who wants to prove that he is an unvarnished Chicago Tribune sort of Republican can go back to his AMA speeches and find the usual derisive references to Walter Reuther, creeping socialism, etc. But people's minds--even Midwestern businessmen's minds--can change. Romney apparently had an idea sometime in the late '50s that Michigan could be saved from the twin evils of big labor (the Democratic Party) and big business (the Republican Party) by a knight...
...suggested that one reason these doctors have chosen this form of practice is that they would be unhappy with the political views of many of their colleagues on the outside; approximately half of the staff members belong to the American Medical Association, but almost all apparently disagree with some AMA political positions. One observer commented that these men had essentially made a commitment to a form of "socialized medicine" which the AMA fears on a national scale...
...suggested that one reason these doctors have chosen this form of practice is that they would be unhappy with the political views of many of their colleagues on the outside; approximately half of the staff members belong to the American Medical Association, but almost all apparently disagree with some AMA political positions. One observer commented that these men had essentially made a commitment to a form of "socialized medicine" which the AMA fears on a national scale...
...course, they've already got one. He's the guy that made that last-minute appeal for funds which kept Dean Burch out of the red ink. He used to do TV spots and speaking engagements for right-wing outfits like General Electric and the AMA. You remember, Ronald Reagan, the actor...
Nichols favored neither the position of the supporters of Medicare nor that of the American Medical Association. He described the AMA's vehement opposition to any compromise plan as "somewhat exaggerated." "Last-ditch conservatism never gets you anywhere," he said...