It would appear that the AMA’s tawdry collaboration strategy on Obamacare has created a schism between state and national chapters of the organization. The Florida Medical Association, for example, is up in arms:
The House of Delegates of the Florida Medical Association is scheduled to consider a resolution severing ties with the American Medical Association because of its support for the healthcare reform law.
Why? Because the AMA delivered patients and doctors into the hands of the Beltway bureaucrats:
The scathing resolution … accuses the AMA of ‘failing to lead and represent America’s physicians and the American People on the signature medical legislative issue of this century.’
Even worse, the quislings who led the AMA effort got nada for their perfidy. The resolution further states:
[The AMA] ’failed to achieve one single concession’ in the healthcare reform bill.
BTW, your humble blogger predicted the AMA would get screwed. In my October 2009 column for AmSpec, I wrote:
The tragic irony of this cynical strategy is that it will not work … A temporary reprieve from Medicare payment cuts is all Dr. Rohack will have gained by delivering his patients and colleagues into the hands of Washington’s health care bureaucrats.
And, as I pointed out in this piece, that’s exactly what the craven collaborators of the AMA got. They were too stupid even to get their 30 pieces of silver.
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