Trump Should Take Down The American Medical Association’s Licensing Grift
As a government-backed, overtly left-wing monopoly, the AMA no longer deserves a privileged role in the country’s health ecosystem.As a government-backed, overtly left-wing monopoly, the AMA no longer deserves a privileged role in the country’s health ecosystem.Self-evident truths aren’t so self-evident any more
In preparation for a recent doctor's appointment, I had to go online and complete a patient intake form. One of the questions asked for the patient's sex. In the past, I was given two choices — without necessary clarification. On this form, which is apparently standard these days, I saw this:
MALE
FEMALE
(Sex Assigned at Birth)
This kind of lunacy has been endorsed by the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, ostensibly in the name of something called "safetyism" (i.e., to err on the side of not hurting anyone's delicate feelings).
God’s plan for the world is self-evident, and it requires us to put on our work boots and be His hands and feet.
America’s founders, perhaps inadvertently, caught on to this whole idea of “that which is obvious” when composing the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Back in their day, everyone was on board with certain statements — for example, “All men are created equal.”
Our founders were merely stating the facts, and they were asking men and women of good will to sign on — along with the 56 representatives of the 13 original colonies who put their “official” John Hancocks on the document. These men, along with every patriot living in America at the time, pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor,” putting their blood and treasure on the line in the unknown and dangerous fight ahead.
Yet nearly 250 years later, many Americans can’t even perceive these truths, let alone fight for them.
How did this change?
Could it be that failing to believe in nature and nature's God — another of these self-evident truths of yesteryear — has removed any common basis by which truth can be self-evident? If you no longer believe in objective truth — or the God who defines it — then you’re free to invent your own reality, your own “truth,” and your own “gods.”
This shift helps explain how a baby in the womb can be dismissed as a mere “blob of tissue” and terminated at any point in pregnancy — even after birth in some places. It’s how a grown man can claim to be a woman, compete against girls in sports, and expect the rest of us to cheer him on as if biology had nothing to say about it.
It might also explain why many will champion open borders and still say they are good citizens of America. Never mind that a nation without borders is no nation at all — another self-evident truth.
Christians have a unique responsibility in this cultural moment. Like Queen Esther, we were “born for such a time as this.” We are not meant to sit this one out.
Unfortunately, some Christians sit on the sidelines, arguing that getting involved culturally or politically will “spoil their witness,” that they have been put on this Earth just to “preach the gospel.”
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And some among the “faithful” who have unashamedly joined the prevailing winds of an off-course culture are quick to point to passages like “judge not lest you be judged” to show that making waves in culture is un-Christian.
However, those who adopt this line of thinking are completely oblivious to what is happening out in the open and therefore act with political immaturity. The Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, beckons believers to get involved in their world. They have to get their hands dirty and their hair messy in the righteous fight that encourages and supports building God’s kingdom on Earth.
God’s plan for the world is self-evident, and it requires us to put on our work boots and be His hands and feet.
This is the “mission” that we were “assigned at birth.”
Editor's note: A version of this article appeared originally at American Thinker.
Your health premiums are powering the left’s political machine
According to its mission statement, the American Medical Association exists “to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.” In practice, the AMA has become a well-funded political machine — one that uses its government-backed monopoly on medical billing codes to bankroll a progressive agenda.
Each year, the AMA collects hundreds of millions of dollars through royalties on its proprietary Current Procedural Terminology codes. These are the codes doctors use to communicate with insurers and federal agencies when they conduct checkups, order tests, or write prescriptions. Hospitals, insurance companies, and medical professionals are all required to use them — and pay for the privilege.
Instead of using its monopoly to support physicians or patients, the AMA has funneled its resources into ideological activism.
In 2023 alone, the AMA raked in nearly $285 million from CPT royalties. That isn’t a side hustle; it’s a windfall. Watchdogs now rank the AMA among the most financially powerful nonprofits in American health care.
The AMA didn’t earn that money through clinical excellence or medical innovation. It profits from what is essentially public infrastructure.
The federal government made it so. In the 1980s, Medicare and Medicaid began requiring CPT codes for billing. In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act made CPT codes the federal standard for electronic health care transactions. That mandate gave the AMA control over an indispensable part of American medicine.
Hospitals, providers, and insurers can’t opt out. But instead of using its monopoly to support physicians or patients, the AMA has funneled its resources into ideological activism.
On gun control, the AMA has pushed bans on so-called assault weapons, supported raising the legal age of ownership to 21, and opposed allowing teachers to defend themselves in the classroom.
On climate policy, it has declared climate change a “public health crisis,” called for slashing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and demanded “carbon neutrality” by 2050. The group even promotes plant-based diets — not to improve patient health, but to cut emissions. One AMA paper noted that producing a single serving of red meat releases 200 times more carbon dioxide than growing a serving of beans.
During the 2020 George Floyd riots, the AMA declared that racism was “an urgent threat to public health,” pledged to dismantle “racist and discriminatory policies,” and released a video in which its board members solemnly recited these mantras. The group also called for sweeping police reform, claiming “a correlation between policing and adverse health outcomes.”
This is political advocacy, not public health. And it’s not limited to official statements — it’s backed by millions of dollars the AMA collects thanks to its government-protected monopoly.
In 2024, the AMA spent nearly $25 million on lobbying — more than the AARP. By contrast, the National Rifle Association spent just $2 million. The beef and dairy industries, which stand to lose if AMA-backed climate plans move forward, spent far less.
Through lobbying and political donations, the AMA is using your money — your premiums, your tax dollars — to advance its political goals.
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That pipeline of influence may be in jeopardy.
According to recent reports, allies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have explored transferring CPT oversight from the AMA to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It’s a smart move that the Trump administration should take seriously.
A working model already exists. Health care providers use ICD codes — International Classification of Diseases — to document diagnoses. These codes are freely available, globally standardized, and cost nothing to use. There’s no reason procedural codes like CPT couldn’t operate the same way.
Stripping the AMA of its CPT monopoly wouldn’t just break a political racket. It would free American health care from a rent-seeking gatekeeper that has long since abandoned its original mission.
CPT codes are public infrastructure now. A private group with a political agenda shouldn’t be allowed to control access to them — especially not one that spends its royalty checks advancing the left’s culture war.
The Trump administration, with RFK Jr. at the Department of Health and Human Services, has a real opportunity here: End the royalty scheme, move CPT into the public domain, and cut off the AMA’s cash flow.
It’s time to let doctors get back to medicine — and take politics out of the exam room.
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The American Medical Association has floated the suggestion that there's no moral reason why taxpayers should not subsidize the provision of wombs from dead or living women to transvestites so that they can carry babies.
A peer-reviewed paper published in the AMA Journal of Ethics in June concluded that even "if there are limits on subsidies, the case could be made that no moral obstacle stands in the way of justifying subsidies for UTx [uterus transplantation] for some transwomen and transmen, just as there seems to be no fully persuasive argument against gestating a child via UTx."
Timothy F. Murphy, a professor of philosophy in the biomedical sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Kelsey Mumford, a medical student at Dell Medical School with a gender studies certificate, neither one a medical doctor, claimed that in light of the success of UTx in real women, men "who want to gestate their own children" and men who "want uterus transplants to consolidate their identities but not to gestate children" might take interest in the procedure.
After all, their inability to ever normally bear children might leave them experiencing "psychological dissonance in a way that undermines their health and well-being," according to the academics. "The lack of a uterus also closes off the prospect of gestating a child in a way that is available to women as a class. It follows that lack of a uterus is an obstacle to full participation in the social goods attached to women's identity."
The paper's authors insinuated, on the basis of a 2021 bioethics paper, that transvestites may no longer need to suffer disappointment on account of reality, claiming there are "no absolute barriers in anatomy, hormones, and obstetric considerations that would rule out the possibility of successful UTx" in men.
After arguing that it may not only be morally justifiable but scientifically possible for men suffering gender dysphoria to carry children in wombs lifted from real women, Murphy and Mumford broached the matter of cost.
Since the estimated costs for the procedure run between $100,000 and $300,000, at least for females — there's presently no indication how much it would cost for a man, since it's never been done before — Murphy and Mumford indicated that "all parties interested in UTx will look to both private insurance and government providers for help covering costs."
While acknowledging that most states and the federal government do not presently subsidize fertility treatment for women and that there will inevitably be various criteria for eligibility, the paper's authors concluded that there are no moral obstacles in the way of granting men uteri or enabling them to carry children in their naturally barren bodies.
This paper appeared in an issue entitled "Patient-Centered Transgender Surgical Care."
Mumford introduced the issue with an editorial, wherein she noted that "we have now reached a tipping point" in the field of gender dysphoria-affirming genital mutilation and hormone treatments, where the "focus has largely shifted from fighting for its acceptance as a treatment modality and increasing patients' access to it toward ethical stewardship of this now-validated and accessible set of procedures."
"Rather than funding objective medical studies on transgender medicine, the AMA has chosen activist positions on this delicate topic," Dr. Martin Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, told the Washington Examiner.
"Why don’t they fund a study on the 10-year regret rate of children who undergo transitioning surgery? What is the suicide rate among those who undergo aggressive hormone or surgical treatment versus long-term talk therapy?" asked Makary.
"Medicine has many crisis issues today — overtreatment, the medical-industrial complex, stagnant cancer research, and skyrocketing health care costs," continued Makary. "It’s odd that the AMA is skipping over these giant issues to focus on uterus transplants for transgender people."
The Daily Mail reported that uterus transplants have only been executed successfully around 100 times worldwide for women. It is a multilayered process that takes over 18 months on average.
Makary told "Fox & Friends" that it's medically possible to do, but the "question is, should it be done?"
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