{"id":41471,"date":"2009-11-13T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"eb0820ea-b161-4a3c-9d9d-e5ed4d8166ae"},"modified":"2009-11-13T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T15:02:02","slug":"ama-takes-on-social-issues-backs-reform-rebuts-100-year-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41471","title":{"rendered":"AMA Takes On Social Issues, Backs Reform, Rebuts 100-Year Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a century of health-reform opposition \u2013 with highlights such as coining the term &#8220;socialized medicine,&#8221; \u2013 the American Medical Association is now supporting Democrats&#8217; overhaul efforts, as well as taking on a few one taboo social issues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2009\/11\/what_is_the_ama.html\">NPR<\/a>&#8216;s Health Blog reports. At a recent meeting, the group called for the government &#8220;to revisit the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug,&#8221; and for the military to sack the &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell policy on gays and lesbians in its ranks. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Dr. James Rohack, the association&#8217;s president, NPR asks &#8220;What&#8217;s going on?&#8221; Rohack says, &#8220;In the past some have painted the AMA as an organization of &#8216;no.&#8217; We oppose, we oppose, we oppose. In the 21st century, I think the AMA reflects an organization that looks to improve care and meet our mission of helping doctors help patients&#8221; (Hensley 11\/12).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/76i_WGdTOUc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a century of health-reform opposition \u2013 with highlights such as coining the term &#8220;socialized medicine,&#8221; \u2013 the American Medical Association is now supporting Democrats&#8217; overhaul efforts, as well as taking on a few one taboo social issues, NPR&#8216;s Health Blog reports. At a recent meeting, the group called for the government &#8220;to revisit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}