Contact: Kathryn Serkes 206 841 0100 cell [email protected]

AMA HAS SOLD OUT PATIENTS & THE PROFESSION \
FOR A FEW BUCKS

Video from Atlanta Health Care Freedom Tea Party

Washington DC -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons issued the following statement from Kathryn Serkes, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, in response to the AMA�s endorsement of House Bill 3200:

�The American Medical Association has sold out patients and the profession by endorsing House bill that supports government medicine.

�Why did the AMA do it? For a few dollars increase in Medicare reimbursement rates. In effect, it�s told patients, �It�s about the money, stupid.�

�We don�t think that a miniscule raise � one that can be revoked at any time on Congressional whim � is worth selling out for government control of medicine. The AMA has sold patient choice, patient privacy and patient control to the highest bidder.

�The AMA had the unbridled nerve to stand up with the President and pledge to reduce costs � on the very day that it sent out an alert to its members urging them to contact Congress in support of a physician pay raise.

�The AMA is trying to paint any doctors who oppose them as being �anti-reform,� but that�s not true. Our doctors are for reform � real reform that puts patients and doctors in control, not the government.

�The AMA is not alone. Organized medicine has been spineless. Today a surgeon from Arkansas told me that he is appalled that the American College of Surgeons sent him an email saying, in effect, that they wanted a seat at the table, and were willing to endorse the bill if that�s what it took to get that seat.

�Today we�ve heard comments like: �The AMA is a disgrace.� �All physicians who care for patients should drop out of the AMA immediately.� ��has a track record of toadying up to government in exchange for handouts to its cronies that, in turn, are extorted from us as taxpayers and as honestly working physicians.�

�Thousands of doctors are joining the �Dump the AMA� bandwagon. Signatures are pouring in to the �Take Back Medicine� petition to Congress and the President. (See www.TakeBackMedicine.com) These are the doctors who really care about their patients.�

READ MORE COMMENTS AT: http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00346

WATCH VIDEO OF DOCTOR COMMENTING ON AMA AT TODAY�S ATLANTA HEALTH CARE FREEDOM TEA PARTY:
www.takebackmedicine.com/video

LISTEN TO DOCTORS COMMENT ABOUT PUBLIC PLAN:
www.takebackmedicine.com/video

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