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The Washington Post has a great piece on how the American Medical Association is able to inflate doctors’ pay by hugely exaggerating the amount of time that Medicare assumes is required for a wide range of medical procedures. This increases Medicare reimbursement rates as well as the reimbursement rates paid by private insurers.