The American Medical Association has weighed in on Obama's new health
care package. The Allergists were in favor of scratching it, but the
Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The
Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the
Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve. Meanwhile,
Obstetricians felt certain everyone was laboring under a
misconception, while the Ophthalmologists considered the idea
shortsighted. Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the
Pediatricians said, "Oh, grow up!" The Psychiatrists thought the whole
idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it.
Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing and the
Internists claimed it would indeed be a bitter pill to swallow. The
Plastic Surgeons opined that this proposal would "put a whole new face
on the matter". The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the
Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. Anesthesiologists
thought the whole idea was a gas, and those lofty Cardiologists didn't
have the heart to say no. In the end, the Proctologists won out,
leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington .
Showing posts with label American Medical Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Medical Association. Show all posts
July 28, 2012
November 25, 2010
ObamaCare Is as Bad As Opponents Said
[From article]
"The leaders of the American Medical Association (that pathetic organization of bureaucrats and lobbyists) sold its support for President Obama's health-care "reforms" for a promise to permantently repeal these cuts -- and was promptly disappointed. The so-called "doctor fix" didn't make it into the reform law because it cost too much by Washington's eccentric accounting standards."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_docs_are_running_from_medicare_C77TdmTjY1SNqFxSHWlb9M
Why docs are running from Medicare
By MARC K. SIEGEL
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:23 AM, November 24, 2010
Posted: 11:16 PM, November 23, 2010
"The leaders of the American Medical Association (that pathetic organization of bureaucrats and lobbyists) sold its support for President Obama's health-care "reforms" for a promise to permantently repeal these cuts -- and was promptly disappointed. The so-called "doctor fix" didn't make it into the reform law because it cost too much by Washington's eccentric accounting standards."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_docs_are_running_from_medicare_C77TdmTjY1SNqFxSHWlb9M
Why docs are running from Medicare
By MARC K. SIEGEL
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:23 AM, November 24, 2010
Posted: 11:16 PM, November 23, 2010
November 13, 2009
Will AMA Join Newspapers?
"the simple fact is that the AMA no longer speaks for the profession (if it ever did). Only about 20 percent of physicians belong, and many stay in only for the free subscription to the Journal of the American Medical Association, which publishes important studies."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_ama_reform_sellout_r7qHjClJPjktnme1LrvFvL
The AMA's 'reform' sellout
By MARC K. SIEGEL
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:11 AM, November 12, 2009
Posted: 12:30 AM, November 12, 2009
"the simple fact is that the AMA no longer speaks for the profession (if it ever did). Only about 20 percent of physicians belong, and many stay in only for the free subscription to the Journal of the American Medical Association, which publishes important studies."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_ama_reform_sellout_r7qHjClJPjktnme1LrvFvL
The AMA's 'reform' sellout
By MARC K. SIEGEL
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:11 AM, November 12, 2009
Posted: 12:30 AM, November 12, 2009
November 7, 2009
October 3, 2009
Lobbyists For and Against Health Care Reform
1. Argument to discredit newly formed groups as unworthy of speech, suggesting that the AMA, Big Pharma and related entrenched lobbyists should be heard but not new ones?
Who Is Bankrolling the League of American Voters?
Source: Huffington Post, September 24, 2009.
"Standing in a medical exam room, a neurosurgeon in a white lab coat stares solemnly into the camera and warns that President Obama's health care plan 'will hurt our seniors' and 'end Medicare as we know it.' ... How this ad came to be produced and distributed provides a case study in modern American political advocacy. It shows how a quickly assembled group with uncertain origins and funding can make a mark on one of the most contentious public policy debates in memory. The group that says it paid for the campaign -- the League of American Voters -- incorporated less than two weeks before the ad was released online. The League's executive director, its only employee, declined to identify its founders or donors but claims that in less than two months of existence it has built a membership of 16,000 and raised about $1.7 million in donations. ... Interviews and a review of public records show that a wide-ranging group of people coalesced to launch the League or its ad campaign: Dick Morris, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and one of the nation's more flamboyant political operatives; a one-time West Virginia political candidate ([Bob Adams); a New York City public relations executive with ties to health care groups (Alexandra Preate]; a New York rabbi; a filmmaker best known for an ad questioning the patriotism of Vietnam War veteran and then-Georgia senator Max Cleland (Rick Wilson); and a Florida doctor who once settled a state medical board allegation that he had operated on the wrong site during a spinal procedure."
* * *
2. This too suggests that only some lobbyists should be heard. ACORN organizers and their supporters are acceptable but not others who organized?
The Lie Machine Killing Health Care Reform
Source: Rolling Stone, September 23, 2009
"According to internal documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Conservatives for Patients' Rights had been working closely for weeks as a 'coalition partner' with three other right-wing groups in a plot to unleash irate mobs at town-hall meetings ... . 'The insurance industry is up to the same dirty tricks, using the same devious PR practices it has used for many years, to kill reform,' says Wendell Potter, who stepped down last year as chief of corporate communications for health insurance giant CIGNA. ... The campaign to mobilize the town-hall mobs began with a script written by the right's foremost fearmonger, Frank Luntz" who "outlined a battle plan for conservatives to block what he branded the 'Washington takeover' of health care. ... Distributed widely to Republicans on Capitol Hill, the memo framed the right-wing attack on health care reform. ... Armed with the script ... a tight coalition of deep-pocketed groups took the lead in mobilizing the town-hall protests. The two primary groups -- Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks -- actually grew out of the 2003 breakup of an outfit called Citizens for a Sound Economy that had been integral in the fight against Hillarycare."
1. Argument to discredit newly formed groups as unworthy of speech, suggesting that the AMA, Big Pharma and related entrenched lobbyists should be heard but not new ones?
Who Is Bankrolling the League of American Voters?
Source: Huffington Post, September 24, 2009.
"Standing in a medical exam room, a neurosurgeon in a white lab coat stares solemnly into the camera and warns that President Obama's health care plan 'will hurt our seniors' and 'end Medicare as we know it.' ... How this ad came to be produced and distributed provides a case study in modern American political advocacy. It shows how a quickly assembled group with uncertain origins and funding can make a mark on one of the most contentious public policy debates in memory. The group that says it paid for the campaign -- the League of American Voters -- incorporated less than two weeks before the ad was released online. The League's executive director, its only employee, declined to identify its founders or donors but claims that in less than two months of existence it has built a membership of 16,000 and raised about $1.7 million in donations. ... Interviews and a review of public records show that a wide-ranging group of people coalesced to launch the League or its ad campaign: Dick Morris, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and one of the nation's more flamboyant political operatives; a one-time West Virginia political candidate ([Bob Adams); a New York City public relations executive with ties to health care groups (Alexandra Preate]; a New York rabbi; a filmmaker best known for an ad questioning the patriotism of Vietnam War veteran and then-Georgia senator Max Cleland (Rick Wilson); and a Florida doctor who once settled a state medical board allegation that he had operated on the wrong site during a spinal procedure."
* * *
2. This too suggests that only some lobbyists should be heard. ACORN organizers and their supporters are acceptable but not others who organized?
The Lie Machine Killing Health Care Reform
Source: Rolling Stone, September 23, 2009
"According to internal documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Conservatives for Patients' Rights had been working closely for weeks as a 'coalition partner' with three other right-wing groups in a plot to unleash irate mobs at town-hall meetings ... . 'The insurance industry is up to the same dirty tricks, using the same devious PR practices it has used for many years, to kill reform,' says Wendell Potter, who stepped down last year as chief of corporate communications for health insurance giant CIGNA. ... The campaign to mobilize the town-hall mobs began with a script written by the right's foremost fearmonger, Frank Luntz" who "outlined a battle plan for conservatives to block what he branded the 'Washington takeover' of health care. ... Distributed widely to Republicans on Capitol Hill, the memo framed the right-wing attack on health care reform. ... Armed with the script ... a tight coalition of deep-pocketed groups took the lead in mobilizing the town-hall protests. The two primary groups -- Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks -- actually grew out of the 2003 breakup of an outfit called Citizens for a Sound Economy that had been integral in the fight against Hillarycare."
Obama, Drug Industry and Medical Lobbyists
One wonders why, if Obama wants to reform the health care industry he remains silent about the influence of the drug industry controlling of how treatment is delivered.
[link to Video ad included]
"The coalition of industry and liberal groups known as the Alliance for Stable Quality Care -- that is, PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and FamiliesUSA -- have more or less dropped the pretense of being something beyond a checking account for the White House political operation."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/PhRMA_allies_broadcast_Obama.html?showall
September 30, 2009
Healthcare
PhRMA, allies broadcast Obama
Politico.com
One wonders why, if Obama wants to reform the health care industry he remains silent about the influence of the drug industry controlling of how treatment is delivered.
[link to Video ad included]
"The coalition of industry and liberal groups known as the Alliance for Stable Quality Care -- that is, PhRMA, the American Medical Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, and FamiliesUSA -- have more or less dropped the pretense of being something beyond a checking account for the White House political operation."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/PhRMA_allies_broadcast_Obama.html?showall
September 30, 2009
Healthcare
PhRMA, allies broadcast Obama
Politico.com
August 16, 2009
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Weighs In On Health Care Plan
The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve. The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception. Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted. Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the Pediatricians said, 'Oh, Grow up!'
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it. Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing. The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, "This puts a whole new face on the matter."
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.
The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve. The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception. Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted. Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the Pediatricians said, 'Oh, Grow up!'
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it. Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing. The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, "This puts a whole new face on the matter."
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea. The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.
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