During the heated debates regarding passage of the ObamaCare legislation, President Barack Obama and the Democrat Party leadership attempted to convince Americans that this medical power-grab was endorsed by the nation's physicians who were members of the AMA.
The AMA, flush with a government-sanctioned monopoly on medical coding copyrights that yield well over $70,000,000 to its coffers each year, is not budging. Their position of support for the new legislation runs against the sentiments of most practicing doctors. "This is why so many docs have been 'fighting mad,'" adds Doctor Dorin.
As the majority of America's doctors and patients strain to glimpse the future of medical care that is emerging through the shadows, it is apparent that the picture will not be pretty. Non-physicians will be assuming a greater, independent role in providing health care services -- charting new ground in this country's history.
This past weekend, a conservative band of doctors at the California Medical Association's meeting in Sacramento were beaten down in their attempt to pass a resolution denouncing the new Obamacare health care reform law. In Florida this past summer, the state medical association was able to get behind a substantive, if not watered-down, resolution in opposition to the Obamacare law.
The mood amongst most practicing doctors in America is despondent. "Even if Obamacare is eventually de-funded, repealed and replaced -- if not eliminated by way of court challenges and/or state nullification efforts -- there may well be a profoundly negative, lasting effect on the practice of medicine in the United States from elements of the law that are already taking shape," warns Doctor Dorin.
Obamacare strips doctors of their once-elevated and cherished position at the top of the health care delivery system. And many fear the result for quality of care will not be good. As nurses with PhD degrees, nurse practitioners, and nurse anesthetists seek medical degrees through legislative fiat, the system of team-based medical care will be forever changed for the worse.
"The tree of medicine is being shaken so hard," says Dorin, "that not only are doctors falling, but the roots are being pulled out from the ground up ... the tree is dying a slow death."
Doctor Dorin recently formed America's Medical Society in an attempt to pull together disparate groups of individual physicians and disenfranchised medical groups under the symbolic umbrella of one medical society that can truly speak for the majority of American doctors.
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As the nation’s largest physician organization, the AMA welcomes the diversity of physician opinions, but falsehoods and conspiracy theories do nothing to advance the common goals physicians share. We are working for a physician-led team approach to care – with each member of the team playing the role they are educated and trained to play. Pot-shots may make good headlines but they don’t reflect reality: Day in and day out, AMA is working hard to provide physicians with the advocacy and practical tools they need to care for patients and lead improvements to our health system. In the past two weeks alone, AMA has engaged the FTC Chairman on antitrust issues, helped physicians collect settlement payments from UnitedHealth and organized a letter to Congress urging action to stop Medicare physician payment cuts signed by all 50 state and 66 national medical specialty societies.
What about the connection to Executive Order 15344 signed August 14,2010 regarding supplements and alternative therapies being "unscientific" and the connection that creates too the big drug companies. Had any prescription fish oil yet?
Again, the disingenuous A.M.A. wants to divert attention away from their 100 million dollar per year monopoly on medical billing codes. Will the A.M.A. give back this money to the very physicians it has irreparably harmed by supporting obamacare? Will it give up this monopoly to a freeware Web-based system? Will it refund membership dollars to the physicians it has betrayed? Will it admit that it represents virtually no practicing docs and yet postured openly to the media and at the White House as if they were the face of American doctors? The A.M.A. and some local/state medical society leaders want to take credit for some of their activities on the political stage, but the sentiment rings hollow to the doctors and Americans in general who know that the damage they have done in promoting Obamacare is already done. Moving forward, any true reform that preserves and improves medical quality, medical safety, and the doctor-patient relationship will not come from the A.M.A. The A.M.A. is done. Finished. America's Medical Society (AMS) truly does offer a way forward that will benefit doctors and patients alike. I just joined the AMS, and I know hundreds of doctors who have joined in the last week alone.
National Doctors' Tea Party - fantastic!
Obama is accelerating the downfall of the AMA!
And so goes every group of losers who support him,
including the losers in Congress and the media.
Like the end of a bullfight. All the matador has to do is gently put his finger on the beast's forehead, and it collapses.
Im just waiting for this to go down like Obama's presidency--A BIG FAT FAILURE!
There is an organization ready to take over the role of the AMA by supporting practicing doctors. It is called Docs 4 Patient Care. Go to D4PC.org and check it out.
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