The AMA contributed $16,000 to Obama
Medical organizations invoke Newtown to request more funding from Obama
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The American Medical Association contributed more than $16,000 to Obama’s re-election campaign
Ryan plan is good deal for Medicare beneficiaries
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Ryan plan is a great start. Here are four ideas that would make it even better.
Doctors react to Obama prescription drug initiative - TheDC
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Some pain specialists say the plan – like the drugs it targets – fails to address the real issue
Bipartisan Senate duo wants Medicare to make payments to doctors public - The Hill
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Sens. Ron Wyden and Chuck Grassley are collaborating on legislation to make Medicare payments public
Elusive Medicare database documents fraud, waste - WSJ
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The American public is barred from examining in detail how Medicare spends roughly an eighth of its funds, about $62.5 billion in 2009
A twenty-first-century GOP
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Republicans need to win back tech-savvy, educated voters. Here’s how they can do it.
The Kagan moral train wreck
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As we watch in disbelief, the United States Senate is about to take the Fifth on a Supreme Court nominee who has no business being near a courtroom except as a defendant
Study: Many docs don't blow whistle on colleagues - Arizona Daily Star
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Journal of the American Medical Association reports that one third of those doctors with personal knowledge of an impaired or incompetent physician in their workplaces had not reported the matter to authorities such as hospital officials or state medical boards
AMA: Shackling female inmates during labor should be banned - ABC News
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The AMA’s resolution calls on the doctors’ group to write draft legislation that states could use as a model to pass their own antishackling laws
Pharmaceutical profit, big government and bias
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Career bureaucrats and pharmaceutical industry insiders appear quite content to use an old trick to further their agenda against dietary supplements
Organization to censure doctors who partake in lethal injections - The Washington Post
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A national physicians organization is threatening to sanction members who participate in carrying out lethal injections for convicted criminals
Speaking of reform: ‘Not every ailment demands Dr. McDreamy’
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More evidence that the AMA and the ADA are lying to consumers
Got health care?
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In the immortal words of Joe Biden (I love that guy), the passage of health care reform is a ‘big fu#*ing deal’. No doubt. But is it a good deal?
DC Morning: The nurse will see you now
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Specialization and fewer years in school equal less money spent at the doctor's office
Romney keeping it real – and we need it now more than ever
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The time to embrace Romney may be now, thanks in no small part to the Democrats’ passage of ObamaCare
Science or Ideology?: What Lies Behind the Abstinence Education Debate
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Abstinence education is back in the headlines, prompted by a new study that shows such intervention can reduce teen sexual activity in the long term.
It found that, two years after receiving an eight-hour abstinence-only intervention, middle school participants were a third less likely to initiate sexual activity, compared to peers who attended a non-sex-ed health class instead. Moreover, although the abstinence-only intervention did not teach contraception, sexually active participants were no less likely to use contraception
