Corrupt Obama Administration Bribes American Medical Association

The Ways and Means Republicans forwarded Hal Sherz's Wall Street Journal article, according to which the health care law includes a provision facilitating large payments to the American Medical Association from now on.  In return, the AMA has supported Obama's moronic health reform.  Here is what Sherz says:

"It is essential to understand the primary reason the AMA stands alongside President Obama on health-care reform. The organization wants to protect a monopoly that the federal government has created for it—a medical coding system administered by the AMA that every health-care professional and hospital must use if they wish to get paid for the services they provide. This monopoly generates income of $70 million to $100 million annually for the AMA. That makes the AMA less an association looking out for doctors and more a special-interest group beholden to Congress and the White House."

One thinks of the creation of monopolies for privileged businesses as a Republican pattern.  But the Democrats seem to excel the GOP in every branch of corruption, inlcuding subsidies to special business interests.