AARP received 18 Billion in stimulus money. AMA supports bill because all of the lower payments to doctors in the bill are rescinded in another bill unrelated to the health care bill. Before that, they were against it. Also, it wouldn't have even come up for debate except for a 100 million dollar bribe inserted in the bill for the senator from louisiana. OK, maybe it wasn't a bribe. It was written to apply to any state who had an area declared a federal disaster area in the past 5 years who had been flooded when levees or other manmade structure broke. Maybe there is another state that this criteria applies