Friday, October 21, 2011

AMA bills for lobbying supercommittee as high as during healthcare bill debate

Source: The Hill
The American Medical Association spent almost as much money on lobbyists this summer as it did during the height of the healthcare reform debate.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

AMA will still back individual mandate

Source: The Hill
The AMA's House of Delegates voted 326-165 to support the law's requirement that most people buy insurance. The coverage mandate is at the center of several lawsuits challenging the new law's constitutionality.
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Will doctors continue to support health care mandate?

Source: CBS News
As many of the nation's physicians gather at a convention in Chicago this weekend, one of the most controversial issues on their agenda is continued support of the "individual mandate," a key part of President Obama's health care overhaul.
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Friday, June 17, 2011

MD's Gather at AMA Meeting Amid Reform Uncertainty

Source: The Associated Press

Dr. Cecil Wilson is an avid sailor, a hobby that has served him well in navigating the nation's largest doctors' group through murky, uncharted waters.

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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Florida docs slam American Medical Association in new letter

Source: The Hill
A Florida physicians group sent a blistering letter to the American Medical Association on Tuesday to share its "strong message of dissatisfaction with the AMA leadership" for supporting healthcare reform and its "serious reservations about the AMA's effectiveness and its ability to represent the physicians' interests." Read the Article>
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Health Care Reform and the AMA

Source: The New England Journal of Medicine

We conducted a national survey of physicians to determine whether the AMA represented the views of physicians in the insurance expansion debate and to understand who the AMA represented.

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