Word: amas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This article is the second on the political record of the American Medical Association. A third article will discuss the AMA's campaign against the President's health-insurance program...
...AMA has been waging last-ditch battles against socialism for 30 years. From ditch to ditch they have retreated, but they drag their guns along, ever convinced that the hole they're in at the moment is "The American...
Lobbying arm of the AMA is the so-called National Physician's Committee for the Extension of Medical Care (NPC). Though it describes its activity as a "grass roots crusade," not one individual, physician or otherwise, appears on the required list of donors of more than $500. Instead there are the names of 29 corporations--virtually every large patent medicine and proprietary drug business in the country. Apparently, either the AMA "urged" these firms to contribute, or as Senator James Murray suggests, "Such companies fear a loss of customers when people will go to the doctor instead of a drug...
During the first three months of this year, the National Physician's Committee spent an average of $10,000 a day in their eagerness to help run America. They got their money's worth. Under the 81st Congress, the AMA can boast the following achievements...
...Blocked federal aid to medical schools ("danger of federal control"--although many schools need immediate support, and the AMA admits that the country will be short 15,000 doctors...