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To the Editor: In regard to the article by Sharfstein and Sharfstein (Jan. 6 issue)¹ on campaign contributions by the American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC): contributions from political action committees and public health funds are two entirely legitimate but dissimilar pools of money. To compare their use by the American Medical Association (AMA) and AMPAC is to compare not apples and oranges but apples and hippopotamuses.

Political action committees were approved by the Supreme Court in 1972 so that the process of supporting candidates could be clearly observed by the American people. Medical political action committees (such as AMPAC) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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