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AMA Union
What to make of the AMA attempting to unionize doctors and the Congress
considering exempting such a union from the antitrust law?
It seems like bad policy. Why not allow any other trade association to
"unionize" and fix prices? The whole premise of the discussion seems to
suggest that the human patient is no longer the client of the doctor,
instead the third-party payor is. And, the lawyer in me wonders if the
strength of the HMOs isn't somehow related to tort reform. Just wondering.
Brian Blackman
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