Thursday, December 1, 2011

Why The AMA Supported ObamaCare

In his 11/28/2011 Forbes blog post, Avik Roy discusses, "Why the American Medical Association Had 72 Million Reasons to Shrink Doctors' Pay".

The "money quote" (figuratively and literally):
When the AMA gets twice as much from the government as it gets from its own members, we can hardly be surprised that the AMA today is more a tool of Washington's interests than those of doctors. This is why the AMA decided to support Obamacare...
(Read the full text of "Why the American Medical Association Had 72 Million Reasons to Shrink Doctors' Pay".)

This is one of many reasons I'm not a member of the AMA.