A Call To America's Medical Students: 'There Is A Conservative Alternative To The AMA'

Online, April 2, 2011 (Newswire.com) - "America's medical students are petitioning America's Medical Society (AMS) for a voice to challenge the AMA," says AMS founder Doctor Adam Dorin. He reports a rising chorus of calls from medical students who currently have no alternative to the American Medical Association (AMA). "These are bright, hard-working young men and women who are politically conservative and are worried about our country becoming more 'European' in its health care delivery system," Dorin explains. "And many have personally experienced the rationing, taxes, and inferior quality of a socialized medical bureaucracy because they've lived in these countries."

As Doctor Dorin, an anesthesiologist from Southern California, describes, "all these students see is a bleak future, where AMA periodicals and AMA officials try to indoctrinate a 'big brother' mentality that healthcare 'providers' are all the same-and this is really disconcerting to these young doctors-in-training."
Medical students get free membership in the AMA, and will also get free membership in America's medical society. The question Doctor Dorin gets asked most by students is the following: why are residents and doctors in private practice still paying dues to the AMA and local medical societies that remained eerily neutral during the Obamacare debate?

As Doctor Dorin points out, the troubling issue is not the various small battles that some medical organizations earnestly fight for their colleagues, but rather the huge war that has been all but conceded to the government in its attempt to obtain total control over medical doctors.
Dorin further explains: "Obamacare throws out years of arduous pre-medical and medical education (and lengthy residency training) in exchange for a 'politically correct', dumbed-down version of the medical system most of us have grown up to value and respect. It brings on $ 569 billion in higher taxes, $ 529 billion in cuts to Medicare, increases the Medicaid roles by 16 million, and imposes 17 major insurance mandates. The final insult is the creation of two new bureaucracies with powers to impose future rationing: the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payments Advisory Board."

America's Medical Society points out that the AMA has a membership of roughly only 10 percent of practicing physicians in private practice. Most of the AMA revenue comes from its business interests, including sales of things like copyrighted billing codes (the monopoly of these codes nets the AMA anywhere from 70 to 100 million dollars annually). Like the AARP, the AMA also reaps large profits from the sales of its disability and life insurance policies.

"America's Medical Society is free to all of America's medical students-we welcome their interest and membership in our growing organization," says Dorin. "The AMA is a partner of big government, not an advocate for physicians. It wants to be an intermediary in the government's control over the practice of medicine...at AMS, we're fighting for every physician's independence." WWW.AMERICASMEDICALSOCIETY.COM