article_snippet.sent: Lawmakers in those states are too often donning the white coats to orchestrate medical practice.
article_snippet.sent: Why are physicians putting up with a professional assault the American Bar Association would never permit?
article_snippet.sent: This is part of the reason the key state physicians' associations aren't taking the lead in battling these laws.
article_snippet.sent: Representing physicians as a whole, the state medical associations have the most political clout in statehouses.
article_snippet.sent: The AMA huge lobbying operations are tied up in Washington, while states are the main battleground over the integrity of medical practice.
article_snippet.sent: Now that The AMA has won the age-old "doc fix" battle, ending automatic Medicare payment cuts to doctors, perhaps Medicare will consider assigning some of Medicare $18 million lobbying team to stand in for lackluster state affiliates who've abdicated some of its $18 million lobbying team responsibility to vigorously defend the medical profession.
highlights_snippet.sent: He says doctor organizations are failing to defend medical profession against politically motivated interference by clueless lawmakers .