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Tea Party docs: 'Self-serving' AMA betraying physicians, patients
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Sep 07, 2010 12:47pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Julian Pecquet |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 7, 2010 06:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A founder of the National Doctors Tea Party is accusing the American Medical Association of putting profits before its members' interests by supporting healthcare reform.
San Diego anesthesiologist Adam Dorin, founder of PhysiciansAgainstObamacare.org, writes in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons that the AMA is more interested in its prestige and financial contracts than physicians' interests.
"The people and doctors of America have been betrayed by self-serving medical leaders" at the AMA, he writes.
The AMA flatly denied the allegation.
"The pending bill is imperfect, but we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to something as important as the health of Americans," then-AMA President James Rohack said in March. "By extending health coverage to the vast majority of the uninsured, improving competition and choice in the insurance marketplace, promoting prevention and wellness, reducing administrative burdens, and promoting clinical comparative effectiveness research, this bill will help patients and their physicians."
Dorin, who has hosted fundraisers for Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle, among others, has been one of the leading physician-critics of the healthcare reform law. He and Wayne Iverson, director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), launched the National Doctors Tea Party on Aug. 7 in San Diego. |
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