Medical Lobby Backs Obama

The American Medical Association, the largest physician's lobby in the country, has officially endorsed the Senate's health care reform package. Forget that they are doing this after the public option had been removed; they were backing the plan when the public option was in, too.

Will there be a competing physician's lobby to fill the void created when all the AMA members who opposed this legislation bolt? (sound of crickets) That's right; I didn't think so.

Ezra Klein says that if you go back and look at what Obama campaigned on with regard to health-care reform, the bill that passed the Senate was "very close" to that earlier plan.

What has happened is that Obama, like Reagan before him with his tax cuts, is going to do something no other president before him had been able to do. And this is very deep, very complicated legislation. That it has taken this long and raised this much of a ruckus is not unexpected. It is also not surprising that the liberal left does not like this bill; the radical right in the early 1980s didn't like Reagan's tax cuts either, thinking they didn't go far enough.