shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> The AMA is not a government agency. >> > > > > Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that they were. > > But it is true, I believe, that much of their mandate IS as a result > of federal law. > Hardly. The AMA lobbies for these policies. The government does not come up with. The AMA mainly consists of a bunch of doctors who got their because daddy was a doctor and made sure that sonny or daughter got through medical not from skill but from help from daddy's connections just so they can have an easy life golfing and occasionally looking at a patient's blood panel and sticking their finger up the patients ass. Doctors who are truly interested in practicing medicine often find the AMA's exploits appalling. > > > >> They lobby government a lot >> though. So do the HMOs, health insurance companies and the >> pharmaceutical companies. CMA is also a pain in the butt in >> > California > >> as they don't like preventative and alternative medicine so they >> > are > >> anti things like Ayurveda. The profit motive IS at the root of a >> > lot > >> of these problems. >> > > > > > > I disagree. > > It is the absense of MORE of the profit motive that is at the root of > the problem. We need MORE suppliers and providers competing OUTSIDE > the orbit of government control and dictate so that consumers have > more choice at better prices. > Well then you obviously haven't seen Sicko where he clearly shows how much the insurance companies profit. They're not hurting at all. So much your premise.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> We need a medical system where doctors get rewarded >> > > > > > > "get rewarded" in my neighborhood is just a politically correct way > of saying "profit". > You must live in a intellect challenged neighborhood. > > > > > <snip> >> Of course the point of the movie, which you missed, was how corrupt >> > this > >> way of thinking is. >> > > > > > > Oh, I didn't miss the point at all; I just disagree with it. > > Doesn't mean I don't think that Paddy Chayevsky isn't a great > scriptwriter and it doesn't mean that I can't use and enjoy quotes > from the movie. But that makes you supporting the antagonist in the movie.
