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 […]
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DEMS DOUBLE-CROSS THE AMA … AGAIN
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 […]
THE AMA GOT SUCKERED ON OBAMACARE
As I have noted before, the AMA pursued a quisling strategy on “reform” in the hope that it would gain special favors from the President and his congressional accomplices. Well, how did that turn out? Scott Becker argues that the AMA got suckered:
Now health reform has become law, and what does the AMA have to […]
AMA QUISLING CELEBRATES OCARE SELLOUT
Over at Kevin MD the President of the AMA, J. James Rohack, has contributed a post celebrating his organization’s role in the recent betrayal of patients, doctors and voters. As HCBS readers will remember, Dr. Rohack and the AMA sided with the Democrats against the American people in exchange for a gigantic bribe.
This was such a brazen example […]
THE AMA-OBAMACARE BAIT & SWITCH
Well, the Democrats finally paid off the quislings at the AMA, and the American people will (as usual) be left to pay the tab. As I wrote in this AmSpec piece last year, the AMA’s support of Obamacare was all about the Benjamins. The goal was a reprieve from big cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, and that’s what they […]
A DOCTOR’S RESPONSE TO AMA SUPPORT OF OBAMACARE
Last October I wrote a piece for the American Spectator explaining why the AMA backed Obamacare against the best interests of the health care system and the patients.
The AMA was hoping that collaboration on the reform charade would earn it a reprieve from Medicare physician pay cuts cuts due in January. It was a cynical tactic […]
REID KILLS “JOBS” BILL & AMA BRIBE
This is interesting. Combined with Nancy Pelosi’s increasing irritation with the White House, Reid’s move suggests that there is SERIOUS trouble in Paradise:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday …
He […]
AMA BRIBE HIDDEN IN OBAMA’S “JOBS” BILL
Remember the “doctor fix,” the multi-billion bribe for the American Medical Association that got voted down in the Senate last year? Well, it’s baaaaaaaack. The Dems have stashed it in the “jobs” bill:
On page 107, the program delays a scheduled reduction in doctors’ payments under Medicare.
As I wrote last October in the American Spectator, this is the AMA’s price for supporting Obamacare. […]