Title: The serpent on the staff : the unhealthy politics of the American Medical Association /
Authors: Wolinsky, Howard.; Brune, Tom.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Year: 1994
Subjects: American Medical Association; American Medical Association.; Politics; Lobbying; Societies, Medical; Lobbying.; Politics; Societies, Medical; United States
Abstract: The American Medical Association has played a key role during the past century in defining what health care is and how it is delivered in the United States. Now, as the nation tackles reform of the inefficient, costly, and often inaccessible health-care system that the AMA helped build, this powerful doctors' lobby once again is asserting its influence.
Contents: American doctors' association: Looking after medicine's special interests -- Fighting 'The Inevitable': Stopping national health insurance at all costs -- License to make money: Turning Medicare into a cash cow -- Deep pockets: Buying time and clout in Washington -- Principles for profits: Keeping medicine's business ethic alive -- Medical monopoly: Waging war on alternative medicine -- Smoking gun: Playing politics with tobacco and the public's health -- A doctor's right to choose: Putting physican choice first in the abortion crisis -- Political science vs. medical science: Bungling health policy on the AIDS epidemic.