The AMA: A Corrupt Medical Monopoly
The Cartel That Crushed Medical Freedom
From the moment it was founded in 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) has operated not as a benevolent guardian of public health, but as a cartel designed to dominate medicine, eliminate competition, and secure power and prestige for a select class of doctors. Despite its cultivated image as a scientific authority and protector of medical integrity, the AMA’s history reveals a sinister, coordinated takeover of the medical profession.
Medicine Before the Monopoly
In the early 1800s, American medicine was decentralized and diverse. Herbalists, midwives, eclectic physicians, homeopaths, and other practitioners coexisted. There was no monopoly and licensing was rare. Schools varied in philosophy and approach. Patients had lots of choice.
But a dangerous and widely unpopular sect of doctors—those who bled, purged, and poisoned their patients with mercury and arsenic—were desperate for credibility and higher incomes. These so-called "regular" doctors had rightly earned the public’s mistrust. Their treatments often harmed more than helped. Vomiting, blistering, diarrhea, and death were common outcomes.
They failed to earn trust through actual healing—so they turned to politics.
The Birth of a Cartel: AMA’s Founding in 1847
The AMA’s primary goal was not the betterment of public health—it was the monopolization of medicine.
At its very first meeting in 1847, the AMA adopted a "Code of Ethics" that would steer American medicine down a corrupt path:
Members were forbidden from consulting with or referring to non-AMA healers.
Professional unity and concealment of dissent were prioritized over truth and patient care.
Patients were to be treated as passive recipients of care—not informed participants.
In other words, healing was to be monopolized, debate was to be silenced, and patient autonomy discarded.
“Quackery” became a weaponized term. It meant anything outside AMA orthodoxy. Even competent doctors were blacklisted for associating with “irregulars.”
Economic Warfare Disguised as Ethics
The AMA’s early complaints weren’t about poor patient outcomes—they were about:
Too many doctors
Low incomes
Lack of prestige
The solution? Eliminate competition. Regulate the supply. Rig the game.
The goal of the AMA was to boost the status and salaries of one (widely unpopular) medical sect at the expense of all others.
Weaponizing Licensing and Education
By the late 1800s, the AMA was working with state governments to create medical licensing boards. These boards only recognized AMA-approved schools. If you weren’t trained in their dogma, you couldn’t get licensed. Homeopaths, herbalists, and other alternatives were slowly squeezed out.
In 1904, the AMA created the Council on Medical Education to further tighten its grip. Within just three years:
25 medical schools were shut down
Enrollment plummeted by 50%
Then came the 1910 Flexner Report—pushed by the AMA, backed by Carnegie Foundation money, and promoted by Rockefeller interests. It decimated non-AMA schools, wiping out over 80 by 1920. Only AMA-approved institutions survived.
What the public saw as a "reform" was actually a purge.
Erasing Wisdom, Enshrining Dogma
By the 1920s, holistic healing, herbs, nutrition, and individualized care were disparaged as “old wives’ tales.” Medical education became centralized and standardized.
By the 1940s, the AMA-controlled system had succeeded in producing a new generation of doctors who weren’t trained to cure—but to manage symptoms with pharmaceuticals. Drug companies profited. The patient didn’t.
Political Power and the Elimination of Dissent
Throughout the 20th century, the AMA used its political clout to fight off any competing system. Its war on chiropractic was so relentless that a 1987 antitrust ruling finally forced it to back down. It lobbied against alternative therapies, natural remedies, and medical freedom.
And it kept stacking state licensing boards with loyalists—ensuring that only doctors who toed the line could practice.
The Modern Medical Mafia
Today, the AMA remains deeply embedded in a corrupt pharmaceutical-medical complex. Its journal (JAMA) is filled with ads from Big Pharma. Its members dominate licensing boards and ethics panels
Dissenting doctors risk censure, license revocation, and blacklisting. Patients are steered away from any non-AMA solutions. And yet, chronic illness, iatrogenic (doctor-caused) harm, and pharmaceutical dependence continue to rise.
The AMA exists to protect its monopoly, not public health.
Monopolized and Weaponized
The AMA’s story is not one of progress—it’s a hostile takeover. A mafia in white coats, seizing control of medicine by:
Smearing rivals
Controlling schools
Rigging licenses
Silencing dissent
Partnering with a corrupt pharmaceutical industry
It’s time to stop pretending this system was ever about health. From 1847 to today, it’s been about control.
If we want to reclaim healing, we must break free from the monopolies and corrupt institutions that have hijacked it for nearly two centuries.
So happy to see another pick up the mantel and continue to expose the corruption in the medical field. If there is any silver lining regarding COVID big Pharma shot themselves in the foot with Big Pharma having no choice to spend billions on non stop propaganda.
When the basics—health, survival—are betrayed - Society would stagger under distrust, decay, and division.
People adapt, give up or rebel when the basics—health, survival—are betrayed.
If life sciences in the USA—think medicine, biology, public health—are outdated and corrupt, treatments would be ineffective, helpless, diseases poorly managed, kids get sicker, and mortality rates higher. People would spend more on alternative solutions, and productivity would tank as illness becomes rampant.