{"id":1836395,"date":"2023-02-06T08:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836395"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:13:32","slug":"republican-doctors-need-representation-so-leftists-cant-control-medical-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-doctors-need-representation-so-leftists-cant-control-medical-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Doctors Need Representation So Leftists Can\u2019t Control Medical Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-doctors-need-representation-so-leftists-cant-control-medical-narratives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>It appears physicians are not the only group that\u2019s taken notice of the American Medical Association\u2019s (AMA) waning influence. The AMA\u2019s recurrent failures in representing physicians have also attracted the media\u2019s attention. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/02\/01\/republicans-ama-doctors-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Article<\/a> published by Axios on Wednesday, the growing dissatisfaction with the AMA from Congress\u2019s Physician\u2019s Caucus was reported. Axios tried spinning the issue as being on the backs Republicans by stating: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/02\/01\/republicans-ama-doctors-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans break with another historical ally: doctors<\/a>.\u201d However, a closer inspection reveals that the problem is actually with the AMA.<\/p>\n<p>Axios claims that Republicans enjoy a thriving economy. \u201chistorical alliance with the nation\u2019s leading physicians\u2019 group.\u201d In studying the AMA\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cIt looks like all you care about are woke issues.\u201d\u00a0Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Senate side) noted that the AMA is not a good idea. \u201chas been very much left-wing or left-of-center for a long time\u201d 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. \u201cdoctors.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This conclusion is bogus! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/campbells-scoop\/80583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reports<\/a> of the AMA\u2019s decreasing influence are plentiful. The organization that in the 1950s boasted a membership of greater than 75 percent of America\u2019s doctors now only attracts an estimated 12.1 percent of physicians. Dr. Kevin Campbell, a Raleigh-based cardiologist, explained the reason most clearly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/campbells-scoop\/80583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Write<\/a>, \u201cThe AMA touts itself as speaking for all of us \u2014 but rarely listens to any of us \u2014 they work to fill their own pockets with dollars from big pharma and government.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Campbell\u2019s comments serve as a natural transition to the pivotal problem in American medical advocacy: The AMA no longer speaks for America\u2019s 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!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t mobilize, they will find themselves without the appropriate political representation.<\/p>\n<p>First, their national organisation is not willing or capable to listen to about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Medical Association is neither willing nor able to listen to approximately half the members of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":1836398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3680,4154,7213,5965,4268,11665,14742,3911],"class_list":["post-1836395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cant","tag-control","tag-doctors","tag-leftists","tag-medical","tag-narratives","tag-representation","tag-republican"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}