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The nation's largest physicians group has voted to support health care reform legislation making its way through Congress.
At their semi-annual meeting in Houston, delegates with the American Medical Association voted Monday to "reaffirm the AMA's commitment to health system reform."
The vote was a blow to a vocal group of doctors who had rallied to get the AMA to rescind its support for the House version of the overhaul bill, the Associated Press reported. They urged the group's House of Delegates to oppose any health overhaul that includes a public insurance option and Medicare payment cuts to doctors, and that excludes tort reform.
AMA president J. James Rohack said in a statement after the vote, "The time to make health system reform a reality is now." Rohack said, however, that the House legislation is "not the perfect bill," according to the Wall Street Journal.
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At their semi-annual meeting in Houston, delegates with the American Medical Association voted Monday to "reaffirm the AMA's commitment to health system reform."
The vote was a blow to a vocal group of doctors who had rallied to get the AMA to rescind its support for the House version of the overhaul bill, the Associated Press reported. They urged the group's House of Delegates to oppose any health overhaul that includes a public insurance option and Medicare payment cuts to doctors, and that excludes tort reform.
AMA president J. James Rohack said in a statement after the vote, "The time to make health system reform a reality is now." Rohack said, however, that the House legislation is "not the perfect bill," according to the Wall Street Journal.
"We will continue to advocate for changes that help make the system better for patients and physicians as the legislative process continues," Rohack said.
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Jen
7:46PM Nov 10th 2009
State the facts, The AMA membership is 17% of all physicians, declining, and if you want to do some "real reporting", ask them what their government subsidies "were and will be". They were bought! Check it out! The "transparent government" !
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Stella
7:55PM Nov 10th 2009
Jen, you are so correct. The AMA doesn't speak for doctors anymore than AARP speaks for senior citizens. They don't advocate for seniors, they take their money in insurance premiums with their supplemental insurance plans. Obama bought them by promising the highly competitive Medicare Advantage Program would dissolve under this "reform." AARP stands to gain BILLIONS, even as their members are leaving by the thousands. The corruption on this bill, and in this entire administration is astronomical! The only thing transparent in Washington is the blatant corruption and lies being told in the name of "reforms" and "transformation".
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(7) PCL
6:14AM Nov 11th 2009
I wouldn't trust the AMA anymore than I trust the government---oh wait, I don't trust anyone!
http://splashinthepacific.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-real-problem-with-american-politics-today-dude-theyre-just-so-so-uncool/
http://splashinthepacific.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-real-problem-with-american-politics-today-dude-theyre-just-so-so-uncool/
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(1) CARLOS
7:57PM Nov 10th 2009
NO COMMENTS? WHY??????????????
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(2) bob
8:06PM Nov 10th 2009
Faced with the inevitable, is it any surprise the AMA has decided to support "reform"? Think they want to go on record as opposing it? We've seen that this administration has no qualms about stepping into the boardrooms and executive suites of those organizations that have succumbed to the siren song of free gubment money and wielding the hatchet. What's to keep them from showing and denying favor when it comes to usurping a good portion of the healthcare field?
Publicly go up against Obamacare at this point and you may very well risk losing your livelihood.
Publicly go up against Obamacare at this point and you may very well risk losing your livelihood.
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(7) Delores
9:29PM Nov 10th 2009
The American people DO NOT WANT THIS HEALTHCARE PLAN. What happened to, "by the people, for the people"?
Write to your Senators, and tell them NO!NO!NO! Lets take our government back. They seem to do whatever they please anymore.
Write to your Senators, and tell them NO!NO!NO! Lets take our government back. They seem to do whatever they please anymore.
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(7) etkershaw
9:48PM Nov 10th 2009
Here is what's funny. In all of the posts so far there is not even one solution. You sound like the "Voice of NO"... Pointing at the Prez doesn't fix healthcare and having Physicians or AARP act in a way that is besyt for the is what we do in America. Suggestion: Be part of the solution if you dont like what's happening....
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(-1) bob
10:42PM Nov 10th 2009
Having experienced healthcare with a heavy dose of US Government involvement, my suggestion would be to leave the current system alone. There's no evidence it will get any better, and plenty that it will get worse.
The first step in curing yourself from blindly stumbling into support of a system you'll live to regret is to not believe everything those supporting this thing tell you. Talk to people who've had first hand experience, like I have. Better yet, take a trip to your local VA hospital, if you have one. There, you'll see the handiwork of government bureaucrats in the administration of healthcare.
So there's my suggestion. Take me up on it, then come on back and tell me you're all in favor of turning your healthcare over to your government. At least at that point when you come to regret your mistake several years from now, you can't say you didn't have an opportunity to see it coming.
The first step in curing yourself from blindly stumbling into support of a system you'll live to regret is to not believe everything those supporting this thing tell you. Talk to people who've had first hand experience, like I have. Better yet, take a trip to your local VA hospital, if you have one. There, you'll see the handiwork of government bureaucrats in the administration of healthcare.
So there's my suggestion. Take me up on it, then come on back and tell me you're all in favor of turning your healthcare over to your government. At least at that point when you come to regret your mistake several years from now, you can't say you didn't have an opportunity to see it coming.
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(2) kjchard
10:09PM Nov 10th 2009
We need a billion taxpayer march on Washington.
Obamanation - Ruination of a Nation
Obamanation - Ruination of a Nation
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(3) hairhofla
10:20PM Nov 10th 2009
The Only Alternative To Healchcare Reform The Republicans Can Offer Is..Don't Get Sick
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(-5) Paula J
11:13PM Nov 10th 2009
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". The physicians have opposed attempts to fix the healthcare system in the past. Now's the time for something new.
Many physicians are greatly unhappy with what they see in Congress, but they are not about to walk away and leave their patients without an advocate in this process. Politicians represent the needs of their constituents, physicians represent the needs of their patients.
Many physicians are greatly unhappy with what they see in Congress, but they are not about to walk away and leave their patients without an advocate in this process. Politicians represent the needs of their constituents, physicians represent the needs of their patients.
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(4) solomon
11:20PM Nov 10th 2009
David Duke and key Sarai, Sarai for 2012!!!!
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(-1) igreen2115
11:43PM Nov 10th 2009
How those Death Panels working for you lying repubs now........not to good.......LOL
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(-4) Dolly
12:20AM Nov 11th 2009
hairhofla;
And WHERE did you get that information? You haven't even heard the Republicans Health Care Plan, now have you? You are just one of those who think that this is really a health Plan. Well, by the time you realize what ALL is in it, you will find that it REALLY is not all about health care. Just ask someone who knows all the unnecessary things in it that really do not pertain to YOUR HEALTH, but to the government taking over your ENTIRE LIFE! You really should know, but then, the Congress doesn't know what is in the bill either, since NO ONE has read it. Do you sign any contracts without reading them. If so, maybe you should be in Congress also. They don't care what it says as long as Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Waters and Frank say VOTE YES, OR ELSE!
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(5) Loffmin Family
12:48AM Nov 11th 2009
The ones so eager to pass the health care reform should google "health care reform subsidy calculator".It gives you three different options,House,Senate,or the Baucus Bill ,with complete finacial obligations required by you.
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(1) DON
3:07AM Nov 11th 2009
ONLY 40% OF ALL DOCTORS ARE IN THE AMA ASK YOUR DOC WHY
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(-1) john
3:19AM Nov 11th 2009
if they start cutting payments to doctors they will all become thieves and start charging for things that they either didnt do or do unnessesary things all to make up the difference so instead of having good honest doctors we will have theives
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(2) libslie0066
5:45AM Nov 11th 2009
The backlash within the AMA is significant, just like the backlash from the AARP members.
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(3) DON
6:36AM Nov 11th 2009
ASK HOW MANY DOCTORS BELONG AND HOW MANY DON'T AND WHY THEY DON'T BELONG,I ASKED MY DOCTOR,HE SAID DON'T LIKE THIS BILL,OR THAT THEY BACK OBAMA
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(-1) Clay Gunter
7:16AM Nov 11th 2009
Isn't it really strange how Americans all these years have had some form of trust in the AMA and AARP, but yet all of a sudden when the Bushnazi/Repubs speak about them, they have absolutely no validity or trustworthyness? Is it the AMA and AARP, or is it the GOP/Repubs that can't be trusted? LOL! After the Bushnazi regime with its destruction to America and its economy, haven't the Repubs learned anything yet?
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