Word: amas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This article, the first of three on the American Medical Association, describes the AMA's present political influence. Later articles will deal with the past record of the AMA and its current campaign against compulsory health insurance...
...that spend millions yearly to influence public representatives and the public mind. As it happens, the biggest lobby of them all is the very group paying out $1,110,000 on this "National Education Campaign"--the American Medical Association. Listed as "top spender" under the Lobby Registration Act, the AMA spread $2 million and 55 million propaganda leaflets last year in the fight against the President's national-health program. With the largest delegation and the most envied slush fund in Washington, organized medicine can outshout you and your neighbor combined, through the echo may not get beyond the committee...
...able to help many students every year who otherwise would be unable to go through medical school. Our principle consideration is need. We do not want Harvard Medical School to become a school for rich men's sons." The final alternative suggested was state and local scholarships; the AMA thought that if any governmental aid was needed it ought to come from and be controlled by the region concerned...
Although more implicit than explicit, the AMA still nurtures a fear of too much federal control. Especially in the case of the scholarship grants the organization feels that political appointees will replace qualified medical students...
...AMA thinks that political interference would be the result of any government participation in the profession. But the bill explicitly states that "no officer, agency or department of the government shall influence the curriculum or choice of students...