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Bloomberg: Public Option Is Best Way To Fix Health Care

The New York Daily News | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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The principles that President Obama has outlined for national health care reform are driven by a goal that I share: universal access to affordable hea...

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AMA Reverses Position, Says Open To Government-Funded Insurance

CNN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

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(CNN) -- The new president of the American Medical Association, which represents the interests of the nation's doctors, said Wednesday the group is op...

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Who's Hogging Our Antibiotics?

Laura Rogers | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

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Laura Rogers

The way we are raising our food animals -- by regularly feeding them human antibiotics -- is putting human health at risk.

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Behind the Scenes At The White House: The AMA Weighs In On Healthcare Policy Reform

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

The AMA debate on health care: The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.

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Doctors Rx at AMA: Eat Local, Organic

Samuel Fromartz | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

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Samuel Fromartz

Industrial food producers are already in a tizzy over the documentary Food Inc., but I bet they didn't expect to be facing the nation's doctors.

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Address Medical Liability With Science, not Caps: "Standard of Care" is not the Same as Evidence-Based Medicine

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Louise Marie Roth

Many doctors practice in fear of litigation. Some argue this leads to "defensive medicine": medical practices designed to avert the future possibility of malpractice suits, rather than to benefit the patient.

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AMA Opposition and the Path Ahead

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Barbara Coombs Lee

With so many doctors supporting it, who stands against empowering dying patients? Four hundred thirty physicians in the AMA House of Delegates who craft its policy.

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AMA Support Can Secure The Public Option

Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Sahil Kapur

It's time for AMA physicians to take back the compassion and honor that led them into their profession and support the public alternative.

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AMA Refuses To Support Public Health Care Option

AP | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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CHICAGO — The American Medical Association has declined to take a firm position on President Barack Obama's proposal to create a public health i...

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Why Obama Doesn't Sweat Health Care Reform

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.18.2009 | New York

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Michael Wolff

Obama's speech was meant to draw the line between his real reform and all other fake reforms. And it drew it -- a bit.

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The Biggest Problem With U.S. Health Care -- And How To Fix It!

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

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Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.

We should focus on re-visioning healthcare's purpose: to create long-lived, productive and healthy men and women.

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Why the AMA Doesn't Speak for Me

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Dr. Peter Klatsky

Most physicians went into medicine because it allowed us to heal, comfort and help people. Sadly, the AMA feels like it exists only to help doctors help themselves.

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Obama Booed By Some Doctors At AMA Speech

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama isn't used to hearing boos. For all the young president's popularity, the response he got Monday from doctors at an A...

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Obama AMA Speech: WATCH LIVE, FULL TEXT

Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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President Obama is addressing the American Medical Association. Watch his speech live below. The full text, as prepared for delivery, is below the vi...

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Obama AMA Speech: President Urges Doctors To Back Reform

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON and JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors Monday he is against their highest legislative priority _ limiting malpractice awards _ an...

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Dems on Health Care

Jeff Danziger | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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Note to POTUS: Pointers on Speaking to American Medical Association

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 07.13.2009 | Chicago

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Howard Wolinsky

The AMA is already on record as opposing your plan for government-sponsored health insurance for the tens of millions without health insurance.

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Sam Stein

Obama Reasserts Support For Public Plan While AMA Backtracks On Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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Speaking at a town hall in Green Bay Wisconsin, President Barack Obama addressed head on what is the hot debate of the day: whether a health reform ov...

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Dear AMA: I Quit!

Dr. Chris McCoy | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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Dr. Chris McCoy

I simply cannot support an organization that opposes the public health insurance plan for my patients.

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Doctors' Lobby Attack on Reform Aimed at Forcing Malpractice Caps on Obama

Jamie Court | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Court

Obama should let the AMA know Monday that he won't allow the trade association to hold a gun to the head of health care reform just so dangerous doctors can avoid legal accountability.

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Sam Stein

American Medical Association Trying To Torpedo Health Care Reform Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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Just days before President Barack Obama is set to address the American Medical Association to pitch its members on his vision for health care reform, ...

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Destruction Of Health Care Reform: Another Sequel

Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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Sahil Kapur

Witnessing the recent blaze of right-wing propaganda on a public health care option has felt like watching a scene in a scary movie where the killer is creeping up on his victim with a knife.

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National Health Plan to Contain $2 Trillion Deductible

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.13.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

Hopes for a quick fix for the nation's health insurance woes were dampened somewhat today when the medical industry released its proposal for a plan that would include a $2 trillion deductible.

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America's Self-Defeating Attitude on Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Sahil Kapur

The current system encourages exclusion of those who need medical care the most, and only government has the power to restructure these incentives.

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Will The VA Take On Big Insurance?

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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Peter J. Ognibene

The Department of Veterans Affairs faces a crucial decision: Will it take on the private insurance companies that have long enjoyed a free ride at the VA's -- and taxpayers' -- expense?

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