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

READ COLUMM BY STAR PARKER:
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