Texas Medical Association and the ACA: TMA's State Endorsees are Working Against TMA Too
Last week, BOR brought to light the Texas Medical Association's hypocrisy on women's health and the Affordable Care Act--exposing the fact that the organization continues to endorse and fund candidates who actively undermine TMA's policy recommendations.
The articles elicited a response from TMA, who claimed that its endorsement decisions are based on far more issues than these two, supposedly justifying why the organization finds it acceptable to endorse and fund candidates who have regularly advanced legislation against TMA's policy recommendations. Though we invited TMA to respond to the facts we presented, we have heard nothing from them thus far.
We've continued to look into how TMA endorsees' behavior compares to the organization's policy recommendations, and have found even more instances of hypocrisy regarding the Affordable Care Act. It turns out that TMA-endorsed federal lawmakers are not the only ones working to advance a position that TMA does not support.
Though TMA's official stance is that it does NOT support a total repeal of the ACA, many of TMA's state-level endorsees are vigorously pushing for the law to be repealed.
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14757/texas-medical-association-and-the-aca-tmas-state-endorsees-are-working-against-tma-too .
