The licensing fees AMA gets for developing & updating billing codes are an easy target because they make people angry. But they’re SMALL potatoes in the larger scheme of HC costs. Targeting the fees that are AMA’s lifeblood is mainly about political pressure to give MAHA an imprimatur of legitimacy

Progressives like Sen Warren have also targeted AMA’s role in keeping health care costs high, but they tend to focus on its role in structural factors, like oversupply of expensive specialists vs primary care docs

More context here on how Sen. Cassidy (expressing concerns about health care costs) and MAHA/RFKJr (seeking greater influence over medical decisionmaking) are both targeting AMA’s role in how Medicare & other insurers pay doctors.

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The illustrations are by Aysha’s sister, Jasmin Pamukcu!

My grandmother did Elvis’s hair and make up for a “womanless wedding”
drag fundraiser when they were at Humes High School together (he graduated in her younger brother’s class)

I mean, the first paragraph lays it all out.

The President, VP, and Agency officials, including the head of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told us exactly what they intended to do & then did, which was use pretextual civil rights claims to impose ideological control on universities.