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Obamacare changes the health care system in several ways that harm physicians. It also fails to address the pivotal issues facing physicians today—for example, low government reimbursement rates that fail to cover the cost of care, or the need for state-by-state medical malpractice reform.
It should have come as a surprise, then, that during the health care reform debate, the American Medical Association (AMA) emerged as one of the new law’s supporters. But rather than symbolizing physicians’ support for the left’s health care overhaul, the AMA’s stance on Obamacare just proves how detached the organization has become from physicians’ best interests. A recent phone survey of physicians conducted by Jackson and Coker, a division of Jackson Healthcare, affirms the growing gap between the AMA and the physicians it is intended to represent. (Read the rest on The Foundry…)
Tags: American Medical Association, do no harm, ObamaCare, physicians
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“The truth is that nothing is better than that (a public option) because I think we ought to follow, if I may, the doctors’ oath here in Congress as we deal with health care reform: Do no harm.” – (Nov. 1, 2009 on CBS: Face the Nation, per The Washington Post)
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