American Medical Association - Obama on Health Care

The push to overhaul health care received a major boost Thursday as the American Medical Association and AARP endorsed legislation drafted by top House Democrats.The AARP, the nation's largest organization of older Americans, is a nonpartisan group that advocates for people 50 ...

The American Medical Association is launching a coast-to-coast TV ad campaign to press Congress to approve higher payments for doctors treating Medicare patients.The doctors group announced the ads Thursday, a day after Democrats agreed to push a $247 billion bill through the ...

You know it's an odd moment in Washington when a Democratic health-care bill is supported by the drug industry and opposed by several big unions. The industry agreed to pay some of the drug costs for seniors in the Medicare "donut hole," ...

The chief of the Senate Finance Committee, the only panel with health reform jurisdiction that has yet to approve legislation, on Sept. 16 introduced a bill that he hoped would attract enough GOP support to hit the coveted 60-vote threshold to end ...

This quirky spot is sponsored by Conservatives for Patients' Rights, a lobbying group, and the same PR agency that orchestrated the 2004 "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" campaign against John Kerry. In the commercial, called "Drop It," a nerdy government bureaucrat with ...

As debate rages over public health plan, private insurers seem to be quashing competitionOne of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition just what private insurers seem to be ...

Obama confident health care overhaul coming soon, speaks of `about 80 agreement' in CongressPresident Barack Obama says he's confident his drive to overhaul health care will succeed.The president writes in Sunday's New York Times about " health insurance reform" and says his ...

This morning's WSJ notes that drug makers and energy companies spent big on lobbying in the second quarter of this year. We were interested to learn more, so we took a look at the list of 20 top spenders on lobbying for ...

AMA backs bill with public insurance option, its strongest support for Obama health overhaulThe American Medical Association on Thursday endorsed a liberal health overhaul bill that includes a public insurance option, a bold step for a traditionally conservative group with a checkered ...

Addressing what has become the hottest flashpoint in this year's health system reform debate, the American Medical Association House of Delegates at its Annual Meeting in June renewed its existing reform policies rather than declare a position on whether lawmakers should establish ...

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Topic: American Medical Association

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