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 […]
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STATE PHYSICIAN GROUP MAY BOLT FROM AMA DUE TO ITS SUPPORT FOR OBAMACARE
THE AMA GETS NO RESPECT IN THE MORNING
My new column at the American Spectator discusses the humiliating failure of the AMA’s roundheel strategy. J. James Rohack, who recently stepped down from his post as the organization’s President, climbed into bed with the Dems and didn’t even get paid for his “services”:
The country’s largest physician association has completely compromised its integrity and received virtually […]
DOCTORS GO ON STRIKE IN GERMANY
If you ever wonder where Washington’s constant monkeying with Medicare physician payment rates is heading, this news item from Europe will provide a glimpse of things to come:
Some 15,000 doctors across Germany are staging a walkout to press for higher pay and better working conditions, a union said on Monday.
And patients who need care? They are expected to seek […]
PELOSI CAVES ON THE “DOC FIX”
Last week, Nancy Pelosi swore she would hold the doc fix hostage to what she hilariously calls ”jobs legislation,” making the usual charges of GOP obstructionism. But it looks like she’s going to cave:
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a stand-alone bill that patches the payment problem for six months is expected to come to the […]
THE DOC FIX: A LITTLE HISTORY
Now that the Dems have double-crossed the quislings of the AMA by refusing to reform Medicare’s Soviet-style payment system, their next step will be to rewrite history to the effect that it’s all the GOP’s fault. In fact, Dem toadies in the media and blogosphere have already begun. Here’s WaPo blogger Ezra Klein:
In 1997, the Republican Congress created […]
HEH … PELOSI SAYS “NO” TO DOC FIX
Boy that quisling strategy really worked out well for the AMA! First, Harry Reid rams through a “doc fix” that does precisely the opposite of what was promised in return for the AMA’s collaboration on Obamacare. Now, Nancy Pelosi is refusing to bring even that half measure up for a vote in the House:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]
DEMS DOUBLE-CROSS THE AMA … AGAIN
One reason the AMA climbed into bed with the Democrats on Obamacare was an implicit promise from the President and congressional leadership to permanently fix the Soviet-style price control scheme (SGR) that has long plagued physicians who treat Medicare patients.
Well, Obamacare is now the law of the land, and Senate Democrats have done precisely what the AMA […]
THE WAGES OF OBAMACARE
For anyone in doubt about how the Obama regime plans to “control health care costs,” I recommend this piece about the DOJ’s heavy-handed coercion of Idaho doctors:
Today the Antitrust Division, joined by Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, forced a a group of Boise orthopedists to accept price controls for worker’s compensation and HMO contracts as part of a settlement accusing the doctors […]
AMA ROUNDHEELS DISSED BY THE DEMS
One reason the AMA got in bed with the enemy on ”reform” was a commitment from the Obama administration and its congressional co-conspirators to repeal SGR, Medicare’s Soviet-style physician payment system.
In fact, to keep the AMA compliant during the run-up to the final House vote on Obamacare, Kathleen Sebelius explicitly promised to pursue repeal. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the […]
IS THE AMA TRYING TO MUZZLE YOUR DOCTOR?
Hal Scherz, a pediatric surgeon on the faculty of Emory University Medical School, believes the answer is to this question is a resounding YES, and he has written a great piece on the subject in the WSJ:
The American Medical Association is putting the doctors of America on notice. A major cheerleader for ObamaCare, the organization […]
