I'm going to take the position that at this late date blame is somewhere between unproductive to useless.
In this season of meet-ups, social action, ad-hoc collaboration, it is time for Doctors and Providers to begin a very public conversation about what will supersede the AMA. Not that the AMA will go away (as long as it has a revenue stream), rather that it is *no longer* THE authoritative voice representing Physicians and Providers. Your average American has NO CLUE how low esteem the AMA is help by the folks that it is supposedly representing.
Now, I know that the subject of collusion, anti-trust etc immediately comes up, and I am going to counter and stipulate that we are talking about first and foremost communications, not market action.
I have been mulling this over for the last few years, and I believe that there are some trans-formative things on the horizon. The tools are now available and coming that break the status-quo.
