Word: ama
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WASHINGTON--The American Medical Association (AMA) has contributed to an illegal price-fixing conspiracy by prohibiting doctors from advertising, a Federal Trade Commission judge ruled yesterday...
Judge Ernest Q. Barnes ordered the AMA, the largest professional organization in the world, to rescind its rules keeping physicians from advertising or soliciting patients...
...AMA's policy, which prohibits doctors from advertising for patients, originally adopted to prevent medical quackery, has become a means of insuring physicians' profits, Barnes said...
...five-member Federal Trade Commission must review Barnes' decision before it becomes final. If the decision is approved, the AMA will appeal the decision, a spokesman for the group said...
...many spend far more than any other nation on health care, but in some respects its standard of health is surprisingly low. According to World Health Organization statistics, it ranks 15th among the developed nations for infant mortality and 17th in life expectancy for males. Yet the AMA claims that the present system provides "the best medical care in the world...