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...surprising that the AMA sees no problem with wealth aggregating in the hands of doctors while the elderly bear the financial costs. Yet the AMA maintains the charade that it is only acting in the best interests of patients...
...controversial pamphlet picturing a pitiful old woman, the AMA called Congressional efforts to set targets for Medicare spending "rationing." But every acknowledged senior citizen group in the country, legislators from both parties and President Bush say that the proposal is needed to keep health care affordable...
Perhaps the AMA's made its most original argument against limiting costs to senior citizens before the House Ways and Means Committee this March. "Controls on physican fees should not be imposed while the rest of the economy is unregulated," said the AMA representative. In other words, leave us alone until this becomes a communist country...
WHILE the AMA can at least try (and fail) to defend its positions on Medicare reform, its hypocrisy is undeniable on the issue of abortion. Amidst much pomp and circumstance, the AMA filed a pro-choice legal brief with the Supreme Court before the Webster case...
...individual's fundamental privacy and liberty right to be free of government extends to medical treatment decisions," the legal brief nobly argued. But when this "fundamental right" clashed with the income of doctors, the AMA chose the low road...