AAPS News June 2014 – Death Spiral Jun 12, 2014 Volume 70, no. 6 June 2014 The “adverse selection death spiral” in insurance occurs when costs increase rapidly because lower-risk policy holders choose to change […]

Volume 65, No. 1 January 2009 BLITZKRIEG On Pearl Harbor Day, Dec 7, 2008, the Associated Press announced that Obama was determined not to repeat the mistakes that doomed the Clinton health care plan in […]

AAPS News December 2013 – ObamaCare’s Ignoble Lies Dec 6, 2013 Volume 69, no. 12 December 2013 In The Republic, Plato writes about the “Noble Lie”: “It is the business of the rulers of the […]

Volume 70, no. 1 PolitiFact called the promise that “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan” the Lie of the Year. Is the Chief Executive the Liar in Chief—or should […]

Volume 63, No. 4 April 2007 THE PINNACLE OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE The flagship of American military hospitals, Walter Reed, has made national news and congressional hearings because of squalid conditions in housing for wounded soldiers. […]

AAPS News December 2014 – The End Justifies The Means Dec 13, 2014 Volume 70, no. 12 AAPS and many others predicted the destructive effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) from the […]

Index to AAPS News, August, 1986-April, 2006 3M and medical procedure codes 3/01,2 AAFP 1/94,2; 4/94,2 AAFP 10/00,2 AAFP 2/01,3 AAFP 2/02,2 AAFP, stand on universal coverage 10/99,2 AAN on right to die 12/03,1 AAP […]

Volume 61, No. 12 December 2005 PAYMENT FOR VALUE “Payment for Performance” or “P4P” has acquired the aura of like-it-or-not inevitability, like other central planning fiascos such as DRGs and the RBRVS that preceded it. […]