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It's been a long, long time since a sitting president of the United States talked face-to-face with the American Medical Association. So it's not surprising that the more than 500 AMA delegates, friends and relatives assembled here are focusing all their energies on President Barack Obama takes the podium Monday-.
Obama's speech will end a 26-year long drought for presidential speeches at the AMA; Ronald Reagan addressed the delegates in 1983, the same year he proposed to freeze Medicare payments to physicians while his administration worked to cobble together a Medicare overhaul.
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