Not at all.

Consider this letter in today’s WSJ from Dr. Richard Foxx:

The AMA has endorsed ObamaCare. No surprise there. The AMA is largely composed of academics, hospital-based (salaried) doctors, and professional conventioneers. I and many of my fellow clinicians (those doctors who actually work in the trenches and see patients) resigned from the AMA decades ago because we saw the organization for what it was, a group more interested in creating a medical bureaucracy than in acting on behalf of practicing physicians.

The opinion of this irrelevant body does not begin to reflect the opinion of the many doctors who have to go into the office every day, see patients, and make a living practicing medicine.

To paraphrase the old saying: Those that can, practice, those that can’t, attend AMA conventions. Trumpeting the endorsement of the AMA is much ado about nothing.

And while we’re at it, let’s get another thing straight. Does anyone actually think ObamaCare is about delivering health care, or that the government gives one whit about whether you are sick or well, live or die? It’s all about redistributing the wealth and taking over one-sixth of the American economy, pure and simple.

Richard M. Foxx, M.D.

Indian Wells, Calif.