Wait....he doctors are bad because they want to make money? Wow, I guess I am bad too as I want to make money. I am sure the time you spent as a doctor you did all your work pro-bono.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > > Judah - how's this for a fact: number of doctors that aren't gaming > the system: 0. > > Cause it MUST be those evil insurers ... after all they pay the bills > doctors charge and, wait, what? Costs are driven by doctors?? > Nooooooo ... > > Apparently these AMA docs are looking to get paid a bit more than a smile. > > ------------------------ > Just days before President Barack Obama is set to address the American > Medical Association to pitch its members on his vision for health care > reform, the 250,000-member physician group announced it would oppose a > major component of that effort. > > On Wednesday night, the New York Times reported that AMA was "letting > Congress know" that it would resist a public plan for health insurance > coverage. > > Despite a lofty reputation and purported commitment to universal > coverage, AMA has fought almost every major effort at health care > reform of the past 70 years. The group's reputation on this matter is > so notorious that historians pinpoint it with creating the ominous > sounding phrase "socialized medicine" in the early decades of the > 1900s. > > "The AMA used it to mean any kind of proposal that involved an > increased role for the government in the health care system," Jonathan > Oberlander, a professor of health policy at the University of North > Carolina, told NPR in a 2007 interview. "They also used it to mean > things in the private system that they didn't like. So, at one point, > HMOs were a form of socialized medicine." > > Indeed, the role played by AMA throughout health care reform battles > past has often been primarily as the defender of the status quo. > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/11/american-medical-associat_n_214132.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
