Medical Society Files Lawsuit to Block Health Care Overhaul - guess who?

[Roland99]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/30/medical-society-files-lawsuit-block-health-care-overhaul/cerns/

First, do no harm. Second, sue the government.

With the president's ink barely dry on the health care overhaul's final fixes, a group of nearly 5,000 American physicians is filing suit to stop the mammoth new law dead in its tracks.

"I think this bill that passed threatens not only to destroy our freedom in medicine but to bankrupt the country," said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

The Arizona-based medical coalition filed suit on March 26, arguing that congressional reforms illegally coerce individuals into buying insurance from private companies.

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons

During the winter of 1943, the Lake County (Indiana) Medical Committee decided to take action against the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill, proposed legislation that would provide government health care for most U.S. citizens. Also opposed to the bill was the conservative National Physicians Committee. The committee began a membership drive in February 1944. By May 1944, the AAPS claimed members from all 48 states.<1> In 1944, Time reported that the group's aim was the "defeat of any Government group medicine."<1> In 1966, the New York Times described AAPS as an "ultra-right-wing... political-economic rather than a medical group," and noted that some of its leaders were members of the John Birch Society.

Though it describes itself as "non-partisan",<5> AAPS is generally recognized as politically conservative.<4><6><7><8> According to Mother Jones, "despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn Beck with an MD."<8>

The organization opposes mandatory vaccination,<9> universal health care<10> and government intervention in healthcare.<8><11> The AAPS has characterized the effects of the Social Security Act of 1965, which established Medicare and Medicaid, as "evil" and "immoral",<12> and encouraged member physicians to boycott Medicare and Medicaid.<13> AAPS argues that individuals should purchase medical care directly from doctors, and that there is no right to medical care.<14> The organization requires its members to sign a "declaration of independence" pledging that they will not work with Medicare, Medicaid, or even private insurance companies.

wow...real bunch of fine, upstanding citizens there!

[hlthe2b]

1. Typical Faux News reporting... as you state, NOT the AMA

but a reactionary and controversial off-shoot

[LiberalFighter]

2. They want individuals to purchase medicare directley from doctors?

That might be fine and dandy back in the 20's and 30's but not now.

And not a right to medical care? What world is this twit from? It appears that she wants medicine only for the wealthy.

[pscot]

3. The radical cashectomy

may become a thing of the past if this dangerous legislation goes unchallenged.

[Hoyt]

4. Is this the measly 4000 member physician group Ron Paul has supported for years?

I remember seeing his "screedy" -- often handwritten -- newsletters back in the early 1980s. We'd all be paying for inferior, frontier medicine with chickens and potatoes if he had his way. And there would be 250 million uninsured. Of course, we might have been involved in a few less wars.