The AMA
Historically, the American Medical Association has sought to block health care reform in this country. The term socialized medicine, originated with the AMA, when they were trying to defeat FDR’s efforts to put medicine into the Social Security Act in the 1930s.
In 1961, the group hired actor Ronald Reagan to be spokesman for their campaign to block Medicare. The script read: “My name is Ronald Reagan. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until one day we will awake to find that we have socialism.”
Recently, President Obama spoke to the American Medical Association. He said: ”When you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: they’re not telling the truth. What a public option will help do, is put affordable health care within reach for millions of Americans.”
Sixty percent of doctors claim, that they support a public option for health insurance, and the AMA might come on board in favor of a public plan. However, most likely the public plan would have to be so watered down, that it would be ineffective.
The clout of the AMA has greatly diminished, and it no longer represents the vast majority of the physicians worldwide. Some member of the AMA are so resentful of the fact, that their group continues to be against a public option that they’re thinking of quitting the organization.
In 1961, the group hired actor Ronald Reagan to be spokesman for their campaign to block Medicare. The script read: “My name is Ronald Reagan. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until one day we will awake to find that we have socialism.”
Recently, President Obama spoke to the American Medical Association. He said: ”When you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: they’re not telling the truth. What a public option will help do, is put affordable health care within reach for millions of Americans.”
Sixty percent of doctors claim, that they support a public option for health insurance, and the AMA might come on board in favor of a public plan. However, most likely the public plan would have to be so watered down, that it would be ineffective.
The clout of the AMA has greatly diminished, and it no longer represents the vast majority of the physicians worldwide. Some member of the AMA are so resentful of the fact, that their group continues to be against a public option that they’re thinking of quitting the organization.
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