{"id":8340,"date":"2020-11-24T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:04:30","slug":"ama-is-a-tax-exempt-hedge-fund-and-licensing-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8340","title":{"rendered":"AMA is a tax exempt hedge fund and licensing entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epsilontheory.com\/ama-bitfd\/\">Ben hunt:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2018, the American Medical Association made $158.6 million in 100% gross margin revenues by licensing its name and logo and membership lists to everyone from its own insurance brokerage subsidiary \u2013 the AMA Insurance Agency \u2013 to every pharma co or medical device co or whatever co that was willing to pay for that stamp of approval and halo of authority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s how the AMA makes its money. Not so much by selling TO you \u2013 the doctors of America \u2013 with membership dues and overpriced PPE and merch, but by selling YOU \u2013 the doctors of America \u2013 to anyone who wants to buy your name and your reputation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben hunt: In 2018, the American Medical Association made $158.6 million in 100% gross margin revenues by licensing its name and logo and membership lists to everyone from its own insurance brokerage subsidiary \u2013 the AMA Insurance Agency \u2013 to every pharma co or medical device co or whatever co that was willing to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}