t byfield wrote:
> AMA's Delegates Decide to Create Union of Doctors
>
> "Dr. Barry Liebowitz, president of the National Doctors Alliance,
> a 15,000-member affiliate of the Service Employees International
> Union, and the Doctors Council, a union of 2,500 doctors based in
> New York that is the nation's oldest union of attending physicians
> [says] 'The endorsement of a doctors union by the A.M.A. gives an
> enormous psychological boost to the movement to unionize doctors.'"
> ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> if that's all they needed, why didn't they just write themselves a scrip?
>
Recognizing there are some good docs out there in the trenches, it seems very obvious that the main reason this unionization is happening is because HMOs have taken a wad out of doctors wallets. Health care has been on average unaffordable, unattainable and scanty for millions in the U.S. for a long time and the docs didn't seem to notice. Now it is a hot item. -- Marta Russell