"The profession’s shifting politics were on display in Chicago in June when hundreds of doctors gathered for the AMA’s annual meeting. The most contentious topic was whether to loosen the group’s longstanding opposition to creating a single-payer health-care system."
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There was a time when Republicans believed in science, that has gone out the window since the religious right took over the party.
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The British Medical Association opposed the establishment of the NHS. Now there is a room in BMA House named after the NHS’s founder, Aneurin Bevan.
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Although not for Medicare for All.
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Perhaps when everyone is on Medicare, Medicare will actually do what it supposed to do. Everyone in the same boat is a strong motivation not to tip drastically in either direction.
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I’m paywalled. Is it simply because doctors are more likely to be women now?
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that, and "consolidation and the cost of new tech made it harder to own a small practice. Older physicians sold theirs, and new ones... became employees of health systems... result is fewer business-owner physicians who back GOP for its pro-employer policies"
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Because we see the effects of inequity daily. Also exposed to the realities of ethical questions like abortion access. We don't get to turn a blind eye
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Specialists are more likely to be r’s.
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