No citation is needed. Go to your local hospital and ask. AMA supports Obamacare, and that pisses off a lot of doctors in my area.
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The AMAs president, Dr. J. James Rohack, told reporters Thursday that the legislation is not a perfect representation of our views but is close enough to warrant his groups support and keep the reform process moving forward.
Rohack said the bill needs to be accompanied by legislation reversing scheduled Medicare reimbursement payment reductions to physicians.
Responding to the AMA endorsement, Obama said the doctors group is supporting reform because [its members have] seen firsthand whats broken about our health care system, Obama said.
Among other things, the bill would subsidize insurance for poorer Americans and create health insurance exchanges to make it easier for small groups and individuals to purchase coverage. It also would cap annual out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Pelosis office has said the bill would cut the federal deficit by roughly billion over the next decade. The measure is financed through a combination of a tax surcharge on wealthy Americans and spending constraints in Medicare and Medicaid.
The House bill also includes a government-run public option. Under the House plan, health care providers would be allowed to negotiate reimbursement rates with the federal government. Pelosi and other liberal Democrats had argued for a more robust public option that would tie reimbursement rates for providers and hospitals to Medicare rates plus a 5 percent increase. Several Democrats representing rural areas, however, killed the proposal after complaining that doctors and hospitals in their districts would be shortchanged under such a formula.
My friend is a student interviewer and he said that seeing anything AMSA-related on an interviewee's application is a turn-off for him because of the types of pre-meds it attracted at his undergrad
