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Non-"biased" Fox Nation: "Misguided American Medical Association Endorses Rationing"

July 22, 2009 10:12 am ET by Media Matters staff

Non-biased Fox Nation: Misguided American Medical Association Endorses Rationing

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    • Author by overmars jr. (July 22, 2009 10:17 am ET)
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      Waiiiiiiit a minute! When a "poll" of AMA members showed they had misgivings about the Obama plan, FNC trumpeted it to the heavens.

      And now, magically, they've become 'misguided'. By what? Facts?

      Good grief.
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    • Author by mk3872 (July 22, 2009 10:40 am ET)
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      It's simply the Fox/Murdoch juggernaut shooting a warning missle across the bow of the AMA.

      The AMA will feel their wrath for a long time after supporting this bill.
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    • Author by The_Cat (July 22, 2009 10:42 am ET)
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      The link supplied by Fox Nation is to a NY Post editorial by Dr. Marc Siegel. He was on Fox this morning falsely equating rationing with eugenics.

      What he seems most concerned about is government attempts to control cost. The most effective way to do this is through encouraging healthier living and frequent checkups, to catch small problems before they become big problems.

      I'm pretty sure that what Dr. Siegel is truly concerned about is the enormous salary his place as a physician provides him. Just like the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, doctors are loathe to give up wealth and privilege. I say if they went into medicine hoping only to grow wealthy, and not because it is something they love, they are probably not that good as doctors in the first place.
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    • Author by JW, Denver (July 22, 2009 11:32 am ET)
         
      The AMA is really just a political group. I'm more interested in what the American College of Physicians thinks.

      http://www.acponline.org/
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (July 22, 2009 12:03 pm ET)
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        Personally? I don't care WHAT doctors think. This isn't a medical problem, it's an economic and political one. Leave medicine to the doctors and leave economics and politics to the economists and politicians. Asking a doctor what he thinks of public health financing is like asking an economist or a politician "to take a look at this lump under my arm." I don't ask politicians for medical advice, and I don't value a doctor's economic/political opinions any more than I do any ordinary citizen's. That's sound harsh, but I fail to see why they necessarily have some kind of specialized knowledge on the subject. They don't. What's more, as it will affect how (and possibly how much) they get paid, if anything, that even invalidates their opinion on the matter, since they have thier interests at stake.

        And I'm not out to screw the doctors here... On the contrary, I'd like to shift more of the money being collected by insuranc co's to them. But all this bedwetting by the medical community about health care reform means absolutely nothing about the quality of the bill.

        (And I'll stand by that whether they oppose it, or support it. There voice matters no more than that of any other citizen's, and arguably less.)
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    • Author by shaggles (July 22, 2009 2:21 pm ET)
         
      The point isn't whether the AMA endorses the House bill. It's that Fox Nation claims to be unbiased yet refer to the bill using the RNC approved "rationing" and characterize the AMA as "misguided" for endorsing it both of which clearly show bias.
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    • Author by steeve (July 22, 2009 6:09 pm ET)
         
      Is there an ounce of "rationing" anywhere in the bill, or even in the larger field of bill-related subjects?

      Could Fox Nation have said "misguided AMA endorses chihuahuas" just as effectively?
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