Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the real tragedy of the AMA is how it overshadows and, at times, opposes the efforts of thousands of valiant professionals struggling to increase the health of America...
OVER the last ten years, costs under the Medicare program have risen at more than four times the rate of inflation. Thousands of senior citizens are grappling with increasing health care costs that outpace their income growth by more than 50 percent...
...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...
...opponent, strongly pro-choice, had done nothing to alienate the AMA except call for expanded health care in the tradition of the late Claude Pepper...
...should also be mentioned that not all that the AMA does is wrong. The organization offers a forum for scholarly research that furthers the advancement of medicine. Local branches of the AMA have cooperated with local government to improve the health of thousands of Americans...