AMA Opposition to Obama Public Health Plan Echoes Group’s Decades-Long Resistance to Healthcare Reform

Amy Goodman & Democracy Now -

On Monday, President Obama is scheduled to address the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors’ group with 250,000 members. They have expressed strong opposition to a government-run plan. We take a look at how the AMA has fought almost every major effort at healthcare reform over the past seventy years. [includes rush transcript]

Guest:

Mark Hannay, director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign and co-chair of the National Universal Health Care Action Network. He also co-hosts the show Health Action on Pacifica radio station WBAI.

(For link to transcript see link at: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/12/ama_opposition_to_obama_public_health