Many groups - including the AMA - have expressed concern that a public plan would have competitive advantages that would ultimately drive private insurers out of the market.
And I think -- and the President said this to the AMA -- that these are individuals that have spent a lot of time in school, racked up a lot of debt, because they want to practice medicine, not because they want to be administrators or bean counters or paper pushers -- they want to be healers.
"Today's a great day for our nation's patients, " AMA president-elect Ardis Hoven said.
While the sample isn't scientific, and may have attracted an anti-AMA crowd, it's gotten attention as a vote of confidence against the group.
Whatever may motivate Palestrant, the anti-AMA bandwagon has picked up speed.
The Ballymoney man will compete in all the races on the Mountain Course in his own privately-run AMA Suzuki outfit.
Neil Hodgson has moved to the United States-based AMA Superbike series, Jeremy McWilliams is in talks over a switch to British Superbike Championship while Chris Burns' future is also in doubt after a trying campaign with Harris WCM.
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Supporters of the late-term ban got a last-minute boost from the American Medical Association (AMA), which endorsed the ban on so-called "partial-birth" abortions on Monday.
The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.
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He scaled Mount McKinley in Alaska, Chamonix in France and Ama Dablam, a 22, 500-foot peak in the Himalayas.
The AMA "may not be what it once was, " says Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), a physician and former member of the AMA's policymaking body.
The AMA was an ideal place to court science-minded clients, and show off the Tally's quirky online presence.
Our AMA will continue to monitor the effects of store-based health clinics on the health care marketplace, and report back to the House of Delegates.
After the conference the AMA's president, Nancy Nielsen, and her soon-to-be successor, James Rohack, gushed with enthusiasm, in particular because of the mention of malpractice reform (trial lawyers represent an important constituency for Democrats, and oppose malpractice changes).
Kent Conrad, a Democratic senator with an interest in health, is particularly keen on the idea, and the AMA has made a point of saying it would consider a co-operative.
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The AMA says it supports using PAs, nurse practitioners and other midlevel professionals in health-care teams as long as they are led by physicians and don't exceed their training.
Ohanian helped Chambers host an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on Reddit and create a project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter to pay for his first new album in decades.
Already, one-third of physicians who treat Medicare patients are not accepting new patients, the AMA says, in part because they are unhappy with what the program pays them.
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The American Medical Association, the giant doctors' group, believes pay-for-delay agreements undermine the balance between spurring innovation through patents and fostering competition through generics, AMA President Dr. Jeremy A., Lazarus said.
The AMA has done a lot of damage to its credibility over the years by behaving like every other special-interest group in Washington, putting its own interests above those of the broader public.
An AMA board member told a Senate panel hearing last week that the group "strongly opposes" a public, government-run insurance plan that pays physicians at the rates of the Medicare programme for the elderly.
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