Thursday, October 22, 2009

Obamacare venality, intellectual dishonesty and misrepresentation

The Obama Administration's claim that American doctors support Obamacare ( e.g. HR 3200 ) is a lie.

The American Medical Association did endorse HR 3200 within 48 hours but the AMA represents less than 18% of American doctors with most of those being medical students and recent graduates who don't know better. The AMA is no longer a professional organization that gets its revenues from subscription fees as once it was. Now it gets $20M from such fees but $300M/year from its monopoly over Current Procedural Terminology ( CPT codes). These are copyrighted and earns the AMA a fee from any use of or access to the codes, the usage of which will vastly expand under the public option. Google "CPT Codes" and anyone can see the restrictions and demands for fee for use by the AMA.

Most doctors, in fact, are BOTH not members of the AMA and ARE OPPOSED to Obamacare. The AMA Journal is considered a joke publication with actual medical advances being published in the New England Journal of Medicine ( as well as specialty journals.) The AMA, just like AARP, no longer represents constitents but is, instead a revenue-enhancing bureaucracy ( the AARP gets its revenue from being a sales agent for insurance .)

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