Here Comes Doctor No

Led by the A.M.A., many of the country's medical practitioners launch a major assault to refashion President Clinton's health-reform plan

Politicians can't seem to resist playing doctor when they start talking about health-care reform. They diagnose a system in critical condition that only their wise prescriptions can save. So maybe turnabout was fair play last week when the doctors decided it was time to play big-league politics and rolled out the polls, direct mail and satellite hookups in a lobbying assault the likes of which had not been seen in Washington since -- well, since 1965, when the American Medical Association decided it didn't much like the idea of Medicare.

It was the A.M.A.'s annual National Political Education Conference in the...

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