Medical Gang of Four Promises to Give Up Red Meat, LOL.

Leaders of the American Medical Industrial complex wrote a letter to the Obama administration recently promising to bring down the costs of healthcare. You can read about it in this fluff piece in the New York Times where they claim that they will lower costs by 1.5% per year or two trillion dollars over ten years (in a two trillion dollar per year industry) which will offset the cost of implementing universal healthcare insurance, a goal of the Obama administraiton.

I don’t know about you but to me this is like asking a wolf to eat less red meat! Let’s see, who were on the list of worthies? The American Medical Association (AMA), the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association (PhaRMA), the Health Insurance Association of American, and the American Hospital Association, my favorite Gang of Four of evil ones that make up the American Medical Industrial complex and that conspire to wring profits from the American public, giving us health care that costs twice as much as any country on the planet, with second to last healthcare outcomes, and 40 million working people without health insurance. Other signers were the Advanced Medical Technology Association and the Service Employees International Union.

Gang of Four of American Medical Industrial Complex: Clockwise from Upper Left: AMA, HIAA, PhRMA, AHA

So I guess this is the latest chapter in the melodrama (or is it TV Western?) of Obama administration reforms broken American healthcare system (see “Obama Healthcare Plans Unlikely to Get Much Traction“).

I guess I have to paste on something one of my e-friends said to the effect of if you can’t defeat someone directly, adopt them and distort their message.

The letter states that healthcare savings will be achieved by efforts to prevent obesity; coordinate care, manage chronic illnesses and curtail unnecessary tests and procedures; by standardizing insurance claim forms; and by increasing the use of information technology, like electronic medical records.

LOL!

Can you say “tell them what they want to hear?”

Obama administration pushes back against bloated American healthcare system.

Well Rick Lippin MD warned us of Sen Max Baucus (D-Montana, remember the guy missing some fingers?) being a Trojan House leader of healthcare reform for the Democrats and now he is letting the Gang of Four in the door, since they are the only ones allowed to the table to discuss healthcare reform. Even though the majority of Americans are in favor of a single party system noone representing this idea is allowed to the table. Well you can show your anger by attending a Single Payer Rally at noon at the US Senate this Wednesday May 13, 2009, Upper Senate Park (Union Metro Station) or if you aren’t an unemployed person in Washington or don’t have your own lear jet and flexible schedule, you can take action here or call/write your congressman and senator.

Hat tip to Mrs. Bremner.