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...nucleus of the present bill is Title 1 of the earlier omnibus health plan but the substance is a full-scale compromise with the AMA's position. The AMA disliked the scholarship program, the administration changed the bill to give scholarships only after the supply of self-sufficient medical school applicants is exhausted; the AMA feared that the stipend paid to medical schools for students over and above their average enrollment would encourage "wildeat" schools, the administration cut that stipend to one-third of its original size. But the medical group, fearing the bull too much to eat the beef...
...measure that the AMA opposes most vigorously is the stipend paid to each medical school for the increase of enrollment. Not only do they think that the present fear of a doctor shortage is unwarranted but they are afraid that some schools might lower their standards in order to get more federal aid. "If the quality of medical attention is to be preserved," states an AMA spokesman in the original hearings on the omnibus health bill before the House sub-committee," the schools must be provided with sufficient funds to correct deficiencies in their present programs before they undertake...
Pressure exerted by the AMA has changed the bill as it stood in the administration's health plan to its form in H.R. 5940. Originally, the medical schools were to receive $300 per student plus $1700 for students in addition to the average pas enrollment; and the total payment that the federal government can make to any school has been cut ten per cent from the original figure...
...AMA, however, is still against the bill not only because it offers a premium to new medical students but also because new medical schools under the present bill will get a full $1000 for every student. The medical group, furthermore, has come out against federal aid for construction. In a statement drafted by its house of delegates at the December meeting in Washington, the AMA states, "--no grants or construction should be made until the needs of all the medical schools have been surveyed and balanced, until a long range program has been developed.--Vesting in the Surgeon General such...
...AMA suggests that the necessary funds could be provided by a nationwide fund-raising campaign--something not yet tried by medical education--or by state and local governments from current taxes. In any case the doctors' organization is diametrically opposed to having the federal government expert any control over the medical profession. In one statement at the meeting in Washington, the group even suggested that "the proponents of socialized medicine plan the training of this excessive number of prac...