Hal Scherz: Why the AMA Wants to Muzzle Your Doctor - WSJ.com

Hal Scherz: Why the AMA Wants to Muzzle Your Doctor - WSJ.com

It is essential to understand the primary reason the AMA stands alongside President Obama on health-care reform. The organization wants to protect a monopoly that the federal government has created for it—a medical coding system administered by the AMA that every health-care professional and hospital must use if they wish to get paid for the services they provide. This monopoly generates income of $70 million to $100 million annually for the AMA. That makes the AMA less an association looking out for doctors and more a special-interest group beholden to Congress and the White House.

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