Jun 22nd, 2009 by ravi
The American Medical Association and health care

Bill Maher’s entirely accurate faux AMA ad is above. For more on the despicable record of the AMA on health care and insurance issues, read The Huffington Post:

Historically and philosophically, however, AMA’s opposition is hardly newsworthy. Despite a lofty reputation and purported commitment to universal coverage, AMA has fought almost every major effort at health care reform of the past 70 years. The group’s reputation on this matter is so notorious that historians pinpoint it with creating the ominous sounding phrase “socialized medicine” in the early decades of the 1900s.

There’s more of this sordid history, at the link above, including the AMA’s ads featuring Ronald Reagan (the B actor) aimed at blocking Medicare (see video below), labelled “socialised medicine”.

 

 

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