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When the term "socialized medicine" first appeared in the United States in the early 20th century, it bore no negative connotations. Otto P. Geier, chairman of the Preventive Medicine Section of the American Medical Association, was quoted in The New York Times in 1917 as praising socialized medicine as a way to "discover disease in its incipiency", help end "venereal diseases, alcoholism ...
The cover of Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine. Operation Coffee Cup was a campaign conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) during the late 1950s and early 1960s in opposition to the Democrats' plans to extend Social Security to include health insurance for the elderly, later known as Medicare.
The Free Market Cure is a series of four short documentary films, each of which tells a separate story about the failure of socialized medicine in each of the subjects' lives. The films focus on the " single-payer " system as seen in Canada , the likes of which have been advocated by other filmmakers, such as Michael Moore in his film Sicko .
Sicko is a 2007 American political documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore.Investigating health care in the United States, the film focuses on the country's health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry.
Such rhetoric shows up even in the language used by the American Medical Association (AMA) which has described universal healthcare policies as "socialized medicine". The AMA and many physicians actively held political roles that opposed many grassroots movements for compulsory health insurance, due to their private/ profit incentives as well ...
Researchers have been making breakthroughs in addiction medicine for decades. But attempts to integrate science into treatment policy have been repeatedly stymied by scaremongering politics. In the early 1970s, the Nixon administration promoted methadone maintenance to head off what was seen as a brewing public health crisis.
"Opponents, especially the AMA and insurance companies, opposed the Johnson administration's proposal on the grounds that it was compulsory, it represented socialized medicine, it would reduce the quality of care, and it was 'un-American.'" [8] These views notwithstanding, the Medicare program was established when the Social Security Amendments ...
Obama’s actions followed a September declaration by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, that her agency would begin the process of reworking the patient caps to expand access. Noting that medication-assisted treatment “is a high priority” for HHS, a department spokesperson told HuffPost in ...