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• 1. expdoctor  |  July 31st, 2009 at 10:45 am

  I am a doctor with 15 years experience. Almost all of the doctors I know and work with are pro reform, but in no way support the democratic plans. It is intetesting how you never hear the dems talk about tort reform or malpractice reform. They wouldn’t want to hurt their trial lawyer buddies. When the Dems actually put all options on the table and enact comprehensive reform, rather that attempt ot control 1/6th of our GDP, the I will be a believer.

• 2. realfoxnews  |  July 31st, 2009 at 11:26 am

  Pat once again give the true facts. Its a group not all support this. So your head line is wrong again. I wonder how much they got paid for this, they don’t do nothing for free.

• 3. mike  |  July 31st, 2009 at 3:09 pm

  60 million Germans were WRONG in 1933, why can’t 450,000 doctors be wrong?

• 4. Pat Cunningham  |  July 31st, 2009 at 3:11 pm

  mike: Some American right-wingers think those Germans of 1933 were right, not wrong.

• 5. realfoxnews  |  July 31st, 2009 at 4:51 pm

  once again Pat was proven wrong then he acts like a little child. Pat why can’t you take the truth on this?

• 6. SNuss  |  July 31st, 2009 at 6:13 pm

  FYI, Pat:

  The Texas Medical Association — the nation’s largest state medical society — is among more than a dozen state associations breaking ranks with the American Medical Association’s endorsement of the healthcare overhaul proposal in the U.S. House.

  TMA President Dr. William Fleming said the association’s actions do not constitute a split with the national association but rather a decision by Texas physicians to make up their own minds about whether to endorse the legislation being debated in Congress.

  “There are about 17 state societies that have backed off, who have not jumped on the bandwagon with the AMA,” Fleming said Monday. “Texas does not oppose the bill, but we cann
  Fleming, a Houston-area neurologist, said the Texas association has a task force poring over the 1,000-page bill to make its own evaluation of the proposal.

  Voicing concerns

  The Texas group sent a letter late last week to the House’s Texas delegation citing key concerns about the legislation. Among them are failure to fix Medicare funding formulas, the “long-term consequences” of the government’s plan to offer a public insurance option and a prohibition on physician ownership of healthcare facilities.

  The letter also cites a failure to include caps for medical liability, which the Texas Legislature approved in 2003. The letter is signed by Fleming, Dr. Nancy Dickey, chairwoman of the association’s health reform task force, and Dr. Susan Rudd Bailey, a Fort Worth allergist who is president-elect of the TMA.

  The letter says that the TMA believes that the public option included in the House bill “would do more harm than good,” and that members remain “gravely concerned” that the option would eventually dominate the system.

  “The physicians of the Texas Medical Association believe our health care system is broken and needs reform,” Fleming said in a statement. “However, we cannot support the current House proposal. ?.?.?. While it addresses some of health care’s ailments, it leaves gaping wounds and does not serve Texas patients well.”

  A group of 17 state medical associations and three specialty physicians groups, led by the Medical Association of Georgia, have also balked at endorsing the legislation, and were drafting a letter last week to circulate on Capitol Hill, according to Congress Daily. Key among the concerns was the public insurance option.

  Bailey said the Texas association participated in some discussions with the Georgia group and others, but eventually decided to send its own letter.

  “The TMA and the AMA really all agree on the principles,” Bailey said. “I think where we differ is in strategy. The AMA evidently has decided there are enough good things about [House Resolution 3200] that justify them going ahead and endorsing it, and then working out the things they don’t like later.

  “TMA is very concerned that if we don’t get important reforms for our patients on the front end, then things are going to happen so fast they’re never going to happen.”

  Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1496890.html

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