Does the AMA secretly want to kill primary care?

Or are they just inept? “It could be that the AMA is craven and strategic; their true goal being to prop up this specialist-heavy medical system that is overly reliant on high-tech, high-cost procedures. They may believe that primary care doctors should be replaced by lesser-trained physician’s assistants, ‘doctor’ nurses, and nurse practitioners, all of whom have a lower threshold to refer to specialists.”

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