Republican Doctors Need Representation So Leftists Can’t Control Medical Narratives

It appears physicians are not the only group that’s taken notice of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) waning influence. The AMA’s recurrent failures in representing physicians have also attracted the media’s attention. An Article published by Axios on Wednesday, the growing dissatisfaction with the AMA from Congress’s Physician’s Caucus was reported. Axios tried spinning the issue as being on the backs Republicans by stating: “Republicans break with another historical ally: doctors.” However, a closer inspection reveals that the problem is actually with the AMA.

Axios claims that Republicans enjoy a thriving economy. “historical alliance with the nation’s leading physicians’ group.” In studying the AMA’s political support throughout the years, the author notes a definite rise in contributions to Democratic candidates over the past three cycles. The numbers are correct, but the trend is not due Republican recalcitrance. In fact, some of it can be explained by the AMA’s tendency to siphon its contributions to candidates belonging to the party in power. Accordingly, the increases in contributions to Democrat candidates for 2020 and 2022 can be explained as a result of the power balance in Congress.  

More telling is the article in which several congressmen from the medical profession express their opinions on the AMA. R-Ohio Physician Rep. Brad Wenstrup noted that he met with AMA leaders shortly afterwards. “It looks like all you care about are woke issues.” Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Senate side) noted that the AMA is not a good idea. “has been very much left-wing or left-of-center for a long time” while raising concerns about the misguided priorities of its affiliated organizations like the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. Axios reports that tensions have led some political scientists believe that Republicans are losing support. “doctors.”  

This conclusion is bogus! Reports of the AMA’s decreasing influence are plentiful. The organization that in the 1950s boasted a membership of greater than 75 percent of America’s doctors now only attracts an estimated 12.1 percent of physicians. Dr. Kevin Campbell, a Raleigh-based cardiologist, explained the reason most clearly. Write, “The AMA touts itself as speaking for all of us — but rarely listens to any of us — they work to fill their own pockets with dollars from big pharma and government.”  

Dr. Campbell’s comments serve as a natural transition to the pivotal problem in American medical advocacy: The AMA no longer speaks for America’s doctors, and whenever the press or leftist politicians need to back up their unsupported liberal positions, they ride the coattails of the leftist AMA, as if it actually represents doctors!

Axios would be truthful in reporting that the AMA (not doctors), has lost its alliance to Republicans. This leaves us with a very troubling position. If physicians don’t mobilize, they will find themselves without the appropriate political representation.

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