Congressional Democrats to AMA: Go Pound Sand

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  January 24th at 05:14 PM  | 

Here’s a completely unsurprising and predictable story. Do you remember how many conservatives spent months trying to figure out why the leadership of the American Medical Association signed the nation’s doctors up in support of Obamacare? Many conservatives argued that the AMA was being shortsighted – that Congressional Democrats would ultimately betray the AMA, despite the powerful group’s consistent advocacy of the president’s health care | Read More »

AMA Splinters Over Failure to Oppose Obamacare

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  July 16th at 03:45 PM  | 

Democrats are touting the fact that the AMA has signed on to their health care reform effort. But is the AMA really representing the views of its members, or are they playing a Washington game: currying favor with the Democrat majority, in the hopes that when negotiators decide who’ll pay for national health care, they’re not left holding the bill? Here’s one suggestion that the | Read More »