As if we should have expected anything less from the technology pioneer, Gates also answered several other popular AMA questions ahead of time via YouTube.
The White House was able to, er, persuade the likes of the AMA and the hospital lobbies because the federal government will control 55% of total U.S. health spending under ObamaCare, according to the Administration's own Medicare actuaries.
As Kim Bealle, former Director of Advertising for Kraft foods told the AMA audience, the introduction of MiO started, as it always does at Kraft, with a business problem.
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Long one of the lobbying titans in the halls of Congress, the AMA is now just another voice in the cacophony of medical interest groups.
As such, Lee opened the Akha Ama coffee shop in Chiang Mai and twice a year, as part of the Akha Ama Coffee Journey, he takes around 20 participants from around the world to Maejantai to see how the villagers live and work.
Yes, the AMA really is one of the strongest unions in the USA. Milton Friedman was right.
The final highlight of the AMA centered around independent display scaling, especially since the device has the capability to power external displays.
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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.
This summer, the AMA published the findings of a survey of 537 medical residents from around the country, in which 57 percent of residents said they'd worked while sick, the Kansas City Star reports.
Yet President Obama still considered the group important enough to pay a house call to its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, in recognition of the fact that while the AMA may not be able to dictate the terms of what type of health overhaul can pass Congress, it could still help gum up the process.
The AMA, historically an opponent of health care reform, is considered one the nation's most influential doctors' advocacy groups.
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 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.
This is some other universe of course, the AMA is nothing like this at all.
Zina, great question and yes, the AMA has some policies on use of nurse practitioners.
"Medicare reimbursement rates have not kept pace with the cost of practice, " AMA President Dr. Nancy Nielsen told CNN earlier this week.
Del Ama declined to talk about the specifics of the backtest, citing SEC restrictions.
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.
The AMA also urges the development and use of safe alternatives to BPA for the linings of infant formula cans and other food can linings.
"Ama's tragedy touched a lot of people, but it is important to understand that there are hundreds of people in similar situations right now, " she explained.
And while many other AMA participants typically only answer a handful of questions, Gates was extremely engaged, responding to responses of his answers, clarifying his opinion on everything from charity to what his favorite book is.
Sqn Ldr Than was also a member of the Army Mountaineering Association (AMA) and a qualified doctor.
Even AMA agreed with me on that a couple of years ago as we end up with Forest Gump health insurance as the algorithms change.
Madara, a former CEO at the University of Chicago Medical Center, wants the AMA to take a leadership role in enhancing physician satisfaction.
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And believe it or not, this AMA policy in regard to retail clinics that covers some of the use of nurse practitioners.
Last month, a key policy committee of the American Medical Association recommended that the AMA formally support a plan for Medicare reform that tracks closely with the one proposed by Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Ron Wyden.
Of course, consumers may count their blessings that AMA influence is as limited as it is.
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.
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.
The report mentioned most health insurers, including UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI), Humana (HUM), Wellpoint (WLP) and an array of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans contributing to what the AMA described as significant market concentration.
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