The Washington Times
A taxpayers advocacy group is accusing an American Medical Association official of deceiving the D.C. Council’s Judiciary Committee during his recent testimony on medical-malpractice insurance reform.
The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights is accusing lawyer Robert R. McMillan, a member of the AMA‘s board of trustees, of intentionally deceiving council members.
The foundation says Mr. McMillan testified that rate rollbacks in California’s insurance-reform law, Proposition 103, were declared invalid and policy-holder refunds were not paid.
But Harvey Rosenfield, the public-interest lawyer who wrote Proposition 103, says the California Supreme Court upheld the law as constitutional and insurance companies paid $1.2 billion in refunds to doctors and other consumers.
“In its radical attack on the American legal system and the rights of injured patients, the AMA cannot be trusted to tell the truth and has forfeited its credibility with lawmakers,” Mr. Rosenfield says.
A spokeswoman for AMA said the doctors group stands by Mr. McMillan’s testimony.
Mr. McMillan is the first non-physician elected to the AMA‘s board of trustees, says the association’s Web site, www.ama-assn.org
