AMA., meeting in Houston, has opposition in the ranks

AMA., meeting in Houston, has opposition in the ranks

Doesn’t represent most doctors

There is a credible rebellion at the American Medical Association which is a backlash to the AMA's support for a government takeover of our healthcare system. It begins today in Houston when the 2009 AMA Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates meets.
• It will involve emergency resolutions to rescind support of HR 3962.
• It may involve a vote of no confidence of the board.
• It will involve a discussion about opposing ANY health reform that violates key AMA policies that have been ignored that protect the patient-physician relationship, viability of private practice medicine and that oppose rationing.
• There will be a tea party express stop and tea party on Saturday at 2:30 pm.
The American Medical Association doesn’t speak for most doctors, is a message being

The AMA is supporting the Reid/Pelosi health reform legislation. Dr. James Rohack is the Temple, Texas, cardiologist who heads the 250,000-member American Medical Association. According to the Houston Chronicle, Rohack said the AMA's support is not the same as an endorsement, which he defined as 100 percent agreement. He said the AMA will continue to work to improve the legislation, with additional direction likely coming at the four-day meeting in Houston.

Only about 15-20 percent of doctors are members of the AMA.

One physician who has been working with Patients First, a project of Americans for Prosperity, resigned from AMA. According to Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. (Medical Director and Founder: Health Enhancement and Renewal for Women, Inc, with offices in Dallas and Tucson), the AMA is standing in the way of other health care professionals who oppose Washington assuming a larger role in health care. (her perspective is posted here: Here’s the link: http://americansforprosperity.org/110409-op-ed-washington%E2%80%99s-heal...).

The Texas Medical Association has taken no position on the House or Senate legislation

A spokesman for the AMA rebellion is Dr. David McKalib from St Petersburg Florida, a member of the Florida Medical Association board of governors, and a neurosurgeon.