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The American Medical Association has announced its opposition to the Senate’s plan to revise (“repeal”) the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare), stating that the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) violates the Hippocratic principle to […]
AMA Outed in Wall Street Journal May 13, 2010 Now that the AMA has clearly sold out doctors on ObamaCare, people are beginning to ask just what this stakeholder has at stake. Hal Scherz, M.D., […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Barack Obama, JD, is the first sitting President to publish an article in JAMA. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533698 Accompanying it are four generally supportive editorials. Obama […]
The “Cadillac tax” on overly generous health insurance plans seemed fairly reasonable at the time the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “ObamaCare”) was enacted. But as a close analysis of chief architect Jonathan Gruber’s statements […]
The deadline for comments on a key method for facilitating early death is Tuesday just after Labor Day weekend. Buried in 250 pages of changes to the CPT procedural codes required to claim Medicare payment […]
People are fond of believing that the American Medical Association (AMA) represents physicians. But if representation follows revenues, the AMA’s most important customer is probably the federal government. In1983, an agreement between the Health Care […]
In what has become an annual ritual, Medicare announces a cut in physicians’ fees, and physicians threaten that patients will lose access to care. And this time they really mean it. An average 10.1% fee […]
