AMA Reiterates Qualified Support for Health Care Reform Bill

The AMA represents only less than 17% of physicians. THEY DO NOT speak for most physicians. This is the movement to government controlled healthcare. They will limit access and not pay anyone , further restricting access.
Don't let the AMA be a gauge

If this big government power grab passes, you can bet that Obama is going to find himself with an overwhelming Republican majority to begin undoing the terrible damage he's already heaped on this nation out of sheer ignorance and misguided objectives. Then, we will start making the kind of free-market reforms that we've been begging for for more than two decades. This so-called healthcare bill has nothing to do with healthcare as it does concentration of federal power over our daily lives. Who wants the National ID card with tenacles into their bank accounts and property? I would hope no one, but then, very few even know about this terrible provision or the many others in this Trojan House. --Dr. Chartrand

I heard a while back when obama first announced his health care reform plan that he would fine you if you dont sign up for heath care, if know this bill has been pending in congress for a year now. Has anything changed in the bill? Is obama still trying to fine the people that cannot afford insurance?

This TRAVESTY is NOT Health-Care...It is just another example of Socialistic Government Take-Over...
More than 70% of the American population oppose it for NUMEROUS reasons, some of which are:
>It doesn't truly address "health care"...
>It's more (all) about Government Control....
>It will put the Country further into massive debt...
>It will create new, massive, levels of Government Bureaucracy...the jobs to run the plan...which will further throw the Country into debt...And, lets face it,...Government jobs do not generate products or income...they only COST money....
>It will, ultimately, lead to the levying of more/additional taxes on the backs of working American as a means of generating the funds necessary to try to pay for this bloated and ineffective piece of government smoke-and-mirrors..(Eg:...Just two of many.....the current proposal in the House under HR 3590 would add a tax increase in the form of payroll taxes...The bill, as it stands currently, would add .9% to the Medicare payroll tax...Another proposal would extend a 2.9% tax rate to include unearned income. This version is favored by President Obama and many Congressional Democrats.)...
>It will lower the quality of legit health care throughout the Nation...
>It WILL raise the cost of health care/insurance premiums for everyone...
>It will force the closing of many clinics and small hospitals due to cost increases which they couldn't handle...Or force them into the control of the government...which doesn't know jack-shit about health care...
>It will ration health care for citizens, especially as citizens get older...
>It will ration access to Tests and Pharmaceutical products, especially "pain management" products...
>The built-in government funding of abortions is an issue which the American public is not comfortable with and which needs to further be addressed...
>It does not address the aspect of Tort Reform, which is one of the areas truly needing a total overhaul and which is one of the principle areas which is driving the cost of health care through the roof...
>There is the hidden agenda of "free health care" for the Illegals...which will cost additional millions...and which the working, taxpaying base of Americans will be forced to pay....
>There is the fact that this will be a "forced" plan...All citizens will be forced into purchasing the government-run plan...even if you don't want it or can't legitimately afford it...The only one's who will be exempt from buying it will be the aforementioned Illegals..who will get it for "free"....
>There is the fact that our Congressmen, Senators, President (and his family), Speaker-of-the-House, and all of Obama's Czars will be exempt from this plan...They will not have to use it but will be allowed to keep their current, grossly expensive premium/special health plans...
>It is loaded with Pork and Special Deals (eg: "Cornhusker Kickbacks" and "Louisiana Purchase")...deals made so Obama/Pelosi could buy needed votes...These "deals" have NOTHING to do with health care and everything to do with political corruption...
>It has hidden "paybacks" to Big Labor and Big Labor Leaders for their support in Obama's campaign...
>And, on top of it all,...None of these fools in Washington truly know what actually is in the plan...None of them...including Obama as is evident by his evasive answers and tap dancing in/during a recent interview....
Get your FACTS together and stop spewing Obama's and Pelosi's snake-oil and mumbo-jumbo !....

like Osama Obama, "The Affirmative Action President", Nancy (Stretch face) Pelosi and many of the other fools in Washington, the AMA represents a small number of people as compared to the totals. Let them side with Osama and lets watch the membership drop like a lead balloon once the rationing and cost cutting kicks in. Pretty soon I'll be making more then my Doctor...I'M Rich Be atch!!!!

Prediction: Concierge Medicine for the upper classes


Urgent Care Centers for the uninsured

WELL THE PARTY OF SLAVERY WAS HONEST , THEY LET WE AMERICANS PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE PARTY COMES FIRST. THEY DON'T CARE WHAT WE WANT ,I SEE NOW THEY NEVER HAVE, THESE DEMS THAT VOTED FOR THIS GAVE UP THEIR JOBS FOR THE PARTY, THEY COULD HAVE CAME OUT AND SAID NO WE WILL STAND BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, BUT NOOO THEY WENT WITH THE PARTY. CAN'T WAIT FOR NOV. I WILL VOTE OUT ALL THE DEMS IN MY STATE. I WILL VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS , AND IF THE REPUBLICANS DO WHAT THESE DEMS HAVE DONE TO US THE PEOPLE THAT GIVE THEM A PAY CHECK OUT THEY WILL GOOOO. WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGTH TO VOTE ON THIS NOT THE POLITICIANS, WILL THEY HAVE THE SAME HEALTH CARE ? I DON'T THINK SO ,WHY DO THE HAVE A HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT WE THE PEOPLE CAN'T HAVE??? WE PAY FOR IT???????????

Thank God we have a president with commonsense,and the courage to do what's right and not just "what will get you elected". Hey! All you politicians, Try standing up for what is right, and best for this country, instead of checking your popularity in your mirror!

Obama told the AMA that if they would endorse his bill he would see that the 21% drop in Doctors rates would not happen.

The president of the AMA is employed by a major healthcare corporation similar to Mayo. Didn't these corps cut a back room deal with Barry? Hum?

AMA IS STUPID WOULD YOU BUY A CAR AND TELL THEM TO SEND THE PRICE AND BILL LATER ( WELL MAYBE IF YOUR A DEMOCRAT)

In a free society, does one individual’s needs constitute another individual’s obligation to provide? The answer is no; rather, it is the duty of free individuals to decide what and whose needs appear most important to them. In a free society, the individual is of supreme importance and should not to be used as a means to society’s ends. The individual has the right to order his actions and possessions in the manner most consistent with pursuing his own happiness and values. This view is consistent with America’s founding principles. The Declaration of Independence states:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The above rights are known as “Natural Rights,” and they protect the individual’s right to freedom, autonomy, and self-government — in other words, to take all the actions required to support the furtherance, fulfillment, and enjoyment of one’s own life. They provide no material assurances or particular opportunities to the individual, but rather set conditions that allow the individual to decide what use he shall make of the circumstances in which he finds himself — to act in his own best interest so long as his actions don’t infringe on the equally protected rights of others.

Based on this logic, government programs that involuntarily transfer or redistribute wealth are immoral because they violate the individual’s natural right to order his own actions and possessions. Theft is immoral. Likewise, theft via the government is immoral.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1801


The character of a society can be measured by the manner in which it treats the elderly, the unborn, and the disabled. The euthanization of America’s senior citizens and those deemed “defective” and therefore “unproductive” via rationing of health care and the brutal murders of unborn babies signals a devastating moral decline. This is an alarming indication of a deadening of conscience…to those who say that one cannot legislate morality, I respond by saying that this monstrous health “reform” does precisely that - it attempts to legislate the God-given right to life of targeted groups of human beings deemed “undesireable” and “inconvenient” by a corrupt and soul-deadened government obsessed with the unbridled acquisition of power.

The POTUS’s “health reform” bill is a massive power grab. Its purpose is to decimate the middle class, destroy free enterprise, and force virtually everyone onto the government system. Those still foolish and naive enough to believe otherwise are the real danger to our country…they are blind enough to be tools for anything the government wishes to use them for. Some of us will never surrender to this, and we will lose our lives for it or maybe better yet congress will lose their jobs....