AMA backs Senate Democrats on healthcare
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While the Senate continued its debate on the healthcare overhaul, the American Medical Assn. today weighed in with its endorsement.
At a televised news conference with Democratic leaders, Dr. Cecil B. Wilson, the association’s president-elect, said his group backs the latest Democratic version in the Senate.
The doctors group has generally backed Democratic efforts on healthcare.
Meanwhile, President Obama praised the early morning vote by the Senate, the first of three procedural votes before the final vote scheduled for Christmas eve.
“The United States Senate knocked down a filibuster aimed at blocking a final vote on healthcare reform and scored a big victory for the American people,” Obama said this morning at an event to praise his administration’s effort to cut waste.
“By standing up to the special interests -- who’ve prevented reform for decades, and who are furiously lobbying against it now -- the Senate has moved us closer to reform that makes a tremendous difference,” the president said.
Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans continued to spar on the Senate floor in a debate that will not change the outcome, but will help lawmakers score their political points for future electoral battles.
-- Michael Muskal
