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How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors
The American Medical Association has a government-granted monopoly over medical billing codes. Is that why the AMA was silent when Robert Kennedy Jr. was sent to run American health care?
One thing that we’re learning in the Trump era is how extensively government power flows throughout our society, as corporations, universities, and law firms scurry to obey the rules that the new administration is putting forward. Twelve panel members are nominated by national medical specialty societies like the American Academy of Thoracic Surgery, while several seats are occupied by representatives from the health insurance industry. The AMA, as such, jealously guarded this position, routinely opposing government attempts to provide universal health care through a centralized administrative public apparatus, haranguing Democrats as seeking to foster “socialized medicine.” And it worked.
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