Originally Posted by
mach5nchimchim
Wow, you get that from all that?, what do you care about people with low digit AMA membership number, just because we've been associated with them for a long time... You are the one with a mentality that anything good about the AMA, you want to discredit and bash away..
As for the five digit number, I didn't raise that issue, you did. As if it's some sign of piety or nobility.
No, I think it's time that people understand just how little of their membership dollar supports them directly. "Tooth to tail" we call it. Taj-Munice is the classic self-licking ice cream cone. That is a bloated bureaucracy that exists mostly to support it's own bureaucracy. The numbers bear that out:
Nearly HALF of all membership dollars supports two things: HQ Staff & two magazines
Total executive expenses increasing at a rate 4 times faster than non-executive staff expenses
Less than $14 of a members' $75 pays for insurance, and that's high as "Insurance" on AMA's 990 includes other insurance not directly supporting members
Less than $1 of a members' $75 goes toward field grants ... and that dollar is shared among the 3,000 fields.
Maybe people will come to the realization out of every $75, only about $15 supports them directly. All the rest "feeds the beast" that is the AMA bureaucracy.