Word: ama
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...American Medical Association's (AMA) criticism earlier this week of President Clinton's health plan has drawn a strong, but mixed, response from the Harvard and Boston-area health care community...
Members of public, private and educational medical institutions, while agreeing with some of the AMA's concerns, decried its statements as too hasty and too strong. Some even questioned whether the statements accurately represented the opinion of a majority of doctors...
Rashi Fein, professor of economics of medicine at the Medical School, when asked whether the AMA spoke for a majority of doctors, replied, "It doesn...
Among those aspects of the plan that the AMA deemed unacceptable were regulation of insurance premiums, cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, and the cost control on treatment of specific cases...
Fein said that he was surprised by the harshness of the AMA's statements, but he did not think it meant certain defeat for Clinton's plan--despite the organization's urging that its members begin recruiting patients to help fight against the plan...