Doctors: The A.M.A. & Medicare
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The delegates' stance on billing was strong evidence that the majority of A.M.A. policymakers are not yet ready to adjust to the new program. The delegates obviously thought that the fight should and will go on. and to prepare for the future they elected Dr. Milford Rouse by acclamation as the next A.M.A. president. Rouse, who will take office in June 1967, is a Dallas gastroenterologist and a former director of H. L. Hunt's ultra-right Life Line Foundation. As speaker of the house of delegates, he has already made it clear that he will take a far harder line on Medicare than moderate Dr. Hudson.
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