Chicago
You would have thought it was Wrigley Field not the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
When President Obama told gathered physicians at the American
Medical Association's annual meeting in his home town this month, "I'm not
advocating caps on malpractice awards which I believe can be unfair to people
who've been wrongfully harmed," he was booed like Chicago Cub Milton
Bradey. "Yank him," was probably next.
Who remembered that in 1993 a similar message by his Secretary of
State--also a homey--received a standing ovation? (Though the long knives did
come out later.)
Of course the 236,000 member AMA which represents a fourth of the
nation's practicing physicians, has always been obstructionist--fighting
managed care, cost controls, posted fees, politicians, insurance companies,
nurses and even a physician "glut" in the past.
But its view of the nation's health problems is just as limited
critics say.
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