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The following letter went out to President Barack Obama on the failure of the US Consulate to do its duty and protect the rights of Amanda Knox. Her rights were trampled upon by European, Italian, and US standards. We expect a response from the US Consulate.
There was an interesting editorial written by Rita Redberg MD yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine about President Barack Obama’ latest physical. Sure, we all think that the Commander-in-Chief should pull out the stops to make sure he is healthy, but should we doctors condone his use of expensive technologies that have not [...]
Our friend Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) came out with the bill that we had long been anticipating that Judas traitor and bed partner of healthcare industry “stakeholders” would come out with, namely dumping public option healthcare insurance and eliminating the chance that the government could negotiate prices of prescription medications. His plan calls for an [...]
Well I felt a LEETLE bit guilty for photo-shopping the faces of the heads of the major healthcare lobbying groups onto the bodies of animals, after the son of one of these personages commented on the post, basically saying that I had no proof that the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AMTA) was against the public option [...]
President Barack Obama basically gave away the farm today when he indicated that he was open to giving up the public option for healthcare insurance, saying that he would not “draw a line in the sand” over the issue. Rahm Emanuel was quoted as saying:
President Barack Obama adressed the American Medican Association (AMA) today and stated that he was not gonna try and split up doctors from their patients or cut off their insurance plans if they liked them. You can read the entire transcript of his speech here. Obama is argued that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed healthcare reform in the past
The lobby for hospitals, the American Hospital Association (AHA) headed by Richard Umbdenstock, contacted heads of hospitals across the land and urged them to “push back” against President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform. Obama decided that he could come up with part of the one trillion dollars he will need over the next decade to pay for healthcare for all by cutting payments to hospitals by 200 billion dollars.
After the announcement today that the American Medical Association (AMA) had come out against the Obama healthcare reform initiative and a government based healthcare insurance plan, protests erupted across the land. First after our post from yesterday there was this post from Alison Bass who cites other physicians describing their outrage as well as this post from Chris McCoy MD who publically resigned from the AMA over the outrage.
President Barack Obama has decided to take a more hands on approach to healthcare reform, with plans for speeches, town hall meetings, and direct meetings with legislators, instead of sitting back and waiting for Congress to mess things up. That might be a good thing,
Leaders of the American Medical Industrial complex wrote a letter to the Obama administration recently promising to bring down the costs of healthcare. 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?
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