Word: amas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of both the American Medical and Dental Associations testified yesterday against the health bill. Dr. Louis H. Bauer, a member of the AMA's Board of Trustees assailed the payroll tax insurance plan as "an extreme example of compulsory paternalism, "wrong in principle and impossible of practical operation...
...even before AMA and ADA spokesmen detailed their opposition to the multi-billion dollar federal insurance proposal, Administration leaders had removed it from this session's "must" list. Senate majority leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois said Monday that Congress could not get around to this matter before a hoped-for adjournment on July...
...Alan M. Butler, professor of pediatrics and chief of Children's Medical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, will defend the Truman program, while Dr. John F. Conlon, director of medical information of the Massachusetts Medical Society, will support the AMA's new program for finance and distribution of medical care...
...pair have sketched their objections to the assessment in the latest New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics, fears that doctors, particularly younger ones, who don't pay the assessment may lose their AMA membership and thus have trouble getting hospital positions...
...AMA membership depends on paying an assessment which more than doubles the AMA's income and which is used to oppose the policy of the President of the United States and the majority of Congress," Dr. Butler declared, "the AMA's major purpose becomes not only political but highly controversial...