Comments on: America’s Doctors Are Prescribing Very Strong Medicine For The GOP — And They Don’t Want Any Of It

By: Larue

Larue — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:25:36 +0000

The AMA has consistently been a Patriarchial Society and deemed itself the sole provider of law for healthcare concerns for decades and decades.

As America downsized, consolidated and outsourced in the late 70’s and thru the 80’s, the AMA led the charge to support it all, wiping out family practices, and many, many other jobs of RN’s and more in the process.

All the while, covering the back of their core investors even as malpractice insurance rose, further eliminating the small offices and practitioners.

Like some kind of Eminent Domain, the AMA continued to side with big biz, pharma . . while wiping out independent practice.

That the AMA stands for this Medicare Issue, is lovely. But again, it’s not about the healthCARE, it’s about their own pockets and the pockets of their patriarchial society.

I concur, though, Howie, nice post . . . any small good news is better than what we usually get . . . but let’s not lose sight of the AMA, and it’s history which is LESS than stellar with respect to really fighting for the patient, and more about fighting for the doc’s they control like a trade union gone bad.

I’ll buy their goodness when they announce all their doc’s will treat everyone at the highest levels, with or without insurance . . . and take the losses in their OWN fuckin pockets, to do so.

We don’t need no stinking healthcare coverage, we need phrellin healthCARE!!!

Harumph.

By: wesgpc

wesgpc — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:55:45 +0000

The health professions think they are ‘players’ with the big money boys. They are not. The corporate GOP types consider folks who shuffle money to be players, not hired help, like gardeners, housecleaners and health professionals. They do useful work with their hands, after all. How gauche and petty! Suckers and marks, nothing more.

The AMA money was not critical in the last administration, so they got a rude brush off with the GOP whenever their interests did no coincide with the corporations. Let us see what happens this time. Looks like the GOP will stick it out with the big corps to the very end.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:06:18 +0000

Howie, that is a great picture, Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, which hangs in the Maritshuis in The Hague. There is a good description at the museum, and another here.

By: mui1

mui1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:20:34 +0000

Excuse me. It’s this site has been totally unaccessible to me all day via AT&T, not Comcast.
I agree that sometimes a thread doesn’t get the attention it should.

By: siri

siri — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:27:55 +0000

lol
well I am built for comfort, not speed!!!!
It’s a daily challenge, to be sure.

By: jacqrat

jacqrat — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:24:12 +0000

Don’t get me wrong. I love every bit of this site, and lots of folks who’re connected with it.

I just have a hard time when things start going so fast. I don’t have a seat-belt.

By: Valatan

Valatan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:20:12 +0000

I don’t know. I have very little sympathy with the AMA, which has certainly done it’s share to put us into the current health care debacle we are currently experiencing. In particular, the way that they’ve manipulated med school admissions, and jimmied the international entrance requirements for the board exams in such a way to keep the number of doctors artificially small. While this has kept doctors extremely well paid, it has also shifted a lot of the burdens of our expanding health care system on everyone else in the system, as doctors’ time has become prohibitively expensive.

By: siri

siri — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:17:47 +0000

*off the puter* life.
it’s like “college”……
lol

By: siri

siri — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:17:09 +0000

It’s HARD to keep up and deal with of the puter life, and it kinda sux cause every single post is relevant and exceedingly well written by excellent authors, so I don’t want to miss anything. It’s tough!
I scramble daily to catch up.
I love this site.

By: jacqrat

jacqrat — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:14:53 +0000

A gentle question - a post every hour? How can we keep up?

I feel old saying this; but the attention-span at this place is starting to remind me of a FOX SPORTS broadcast, complete with WHOOOOSH! sounds.