I cannot answer your last question about the AMA but I can say I agree with what you posted. I've inserted GI Tubes, foley caths, nasal packed a nose bleed in the ER, Gave enemas, performed bladder scan, debrided a burn and other wound, sutured a simple laceration under the supervision of a doc, gave every medication known to our formulary and even administered 12 units of blood to a AAA patient that was leaking and damn near at deaths door. We as paramedics CAN do these types of things and we as an industry need to strive to be able to do them. BUT caveat
Education is the key. when cosmetologists have more hours of training and "internship hours" than we do and they cut our hair, then something is rotten in denmark.