Sep 25 2009
M.D.’s Plan to March On Washington 10/01/09
Well, looks like physicians are not happy about the proposed legislation, according to Nancy R. Terry, Medscape. Many physicians were upset about Obama’s implication that they were greedy, and selectively performed procedures (tonsillectomies, amputations), not on the basis of need, but on the basis of greed. Many ethical practitioners felt that Obama was making a stereotype of them. Medical personnel plan to march to the Mall in D.C. on October 1, 2009, and will continue doing so, until the discussion is about patients, doctors and the quality of care. A new website called MillionMedMarch has been established, where you can sign their petition.
Furthermore, even though the AMA has endorsed the Obamacare, only 15% of physicians belong to the AMA, and some feel that the AMA is part of the problem.
“The mandate as stated on the Million Med March Website includes the following points:
* Services must be adequately reimbursed so that we may spend more time with our patients and not be forced to see an unsafe number of patients to pay for increased business costs.
* Less money must go into the hands of insurance companies’ administrative costs, and more money must go towards patient care and medical research.
* We must abolish third-party payers or prevent a single-payer system for office visits and medical services; these services are costly to the patient, physician, and society as a whole.
* Our patients need access to brand-name drugs that are as affordable in the United States as in Canada and Mexico.
* We must have medical malpractice reform, with caps on all damages, so that we can practice without the fear of needless and unwarranted lawsuits that only benefit attorneys.”
