“American Medical Association Trying To Torpedo Health Care Reform Again.”

“A Symbiotic Relationship – The AMA And The For-Profit Health Lobby.”

“The Doctors’ Revolt.”

“The AMA’s Ties to For-Profit Health Care.”

“Let’s Not Repeat Health Care History.”

So let me amend my earlier statement:

Unfortunately the AMA has been part of the Corporate-Medical-Industry Looters for over 70 years.

A cultist? Probably.

Dangerous? Increasingly likely.

An authoritarian thug? Absolutely.

Duplicitous? Unquestionably.

Erudite? No.

Though congratulations on dusting off your thesaurus.

But your problem isn’t a lack of synonyms, it’s a lack of critical reasoning skills, any sense of real history, and a conscience.

The American Medical Association has stood athwart better health care for American citizens since 1947.

“1947 The American Medical Association (AMA) lost an antitrust lawsuit because of their aggressive opposition to the development of prepaid health plans.”
“Pediatrics for medical students.” Page 143. By Daniel Bernstein, Steven P. Shelov

Weighed down with a surfeit of irrelevant, but often strident, if not calumnious adjectives, you continue to fling that feces, in the hopes that someone will be benighted enough to mistake it for erudition.

That is not, and will not, ever be me.

That’s how long the AMA has blocked health-care reform in America.

And now the AMA has come out in opposition to providing better health care to patients.

It’s contemptible.

Or does “trade association” not have the same negative connotations?

“CEO Compensation: Who Said Health Care is in a Financial Crisis?”

The Corporate-Medical-Industry LOOTS BILLIONS from health care payers. Often those same corporate looters are DENYING COVERAGE to those that have faithfully paid their health insurance bills year after year.

via: Digby

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-is-precisely-why-we-need-public.html

Now maybe this won’t happen, but I say that if the AMA does weigh in against the plan, they will win.

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What you are talking about marketing paid for by the corporate-medical-industry to protect their looting at the expense of patient’s health.

“Marketing” is like using the ‘doctor’ credential to mislead someone, such as saying, ‘I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV,’ and then selling a bunch of malarkey.

Malarkey is still nonsense even if you (mis)label it ‘Dr. Malarkey’.

But let’s say I’m one of Mrs. Malkin’s flying monkeys. What’s wrong with my analysis? If doctors and hospitals are the most trusted on health care, that would imply that they will be able to set the terms of the debate, no?

Your credibility just hit zero. [/B]

Ah, so I’m wrong that doctors and hospitals being trusted more than the President will lead to the public trusting hospitals and doctors’ ads on health care reform more than the President’s?

Or did you just not like the argument and found a cheaper way to discredit it?

“Adam ‘Francois’ Herman” is a concern troll that links to a website spouting corporatist nonsense.

At the website he links to is a post on “why lobbyist restrictions are dumb” which asserts that we can’t minimize lobbyist’s influence but rather we should create an entirely unaccountable Fourth Branch (effectively a Star Chamber) that can independently and undemocratically “remove Congressmen from office”.

Essentially “Adam Herman” is arguing that corporations buying politicians is okay but what “Adam Herman” thinks is needed is the dismantling of our American democratic republic of three independent branches each having checks and balances over each other.

I call shenanigans.

“Adam ‘Francois’ Herman” is a right wing corporatist concern troll.

As “C.S.Strowbridge” has already wisely noted of “Adam Herman”: “Your credibility just hit zero.”

“Strowbridge” is being kind.

Right winger “Adam Herman’s” credibility is LESS than zero.

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In this thread “Adam Herman” is arguing on behalf of the corporate-medical-industry and corporate-insurance industry.

“Adam Herman” = Right Wing Corporatist Troll.

Obamacare?

Your credibility just hit zero.

Congratulations.

If they are indeed the most trusted, then when they start advertising against Obamacare, they will win.