&gt; They lobby, they control the supply of doctors, they restrict competition, and they even engage in price fixing<p>It saddens me that those are your go-to ideas of what a union is.<p>&gt;  The AMA was key in killing Truman&#x27;s universal healthcare proposal starting in 1945.<p>Actual unions have been pushing for universal healthcare for much earlier than I was born. On this front AMA has been the enemy of <i>real</i> organized labor for decades.<p>A real union is about workers banding together to stand up to a boss who says &quot;fuck me or you&#x27;re fired&quot;, or to resist management giving themselves millions while cutting pay for workers.<p>Please don&#x27;t dishonor the good name of organized labor by comparing them to the millionaire doctors who killed our chances for a sane healthcare system.