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Exposing the Tangled Webs of Insurance Networks

By Alieta Eck, M.D. – http://zhcenter.org Nothing could be more confusing than fees charged by hospitals and doctors. There are many reasons why hospitals would like to keep it that way. I remember sitting in […]

Is Your Health Insurance Good For You?

By Alieta Eck, MD – http://zhcenter.org Imagine that you don’t feel well. You have had nausea and vague abdominal pain for a week, and you notice that your belt is getting tighter. You have not […]

ObamaCare Subsidies Rob the Middle Class

By Alieta Eck, MD As the controversy rages between those Republicans who want full repeal and those who want to retain what might be “good” about ObamaCare, we are not asking the right questions. While […]

HHS Secretary Tom Price and the AAPS

By Dr. Alieta Eck: Dr. Tom Price, our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been accused of belonging to a “conservative, fringe medical group” that “holds positions that are at wide variance with […]

Testimony of Alieta Eck, M.D. to Joint Economic Committee

Joint Economic Committee Testimony of Alieta Eck, MD, Physician in private practice in Internal Medicine, Piscataway, NJ, and Co-Founder, Zarephath Health Center, Zarephath, NJ “Rethinking Insurance” April 28, 2004 Good morning. Thank you for this […]

What My Patient Taught Me about Medicaid

By Alieta Eck, M.D. – http://ZHcenter.org/ Since ObamaCare’s newly insured are predominantly new Medicaid beneficiaries, it is important to be aware of what this can mean to patients. These are the lessons I learned from […]

CRomnibus: Why Politicians Cannot Be Trusted with Our Money

By Alieta Eck, M.D. – http://zhcenter.org Congress just passed—without even reading it—a trillion dollar spending bill. The Continuing Resolution (CR) allows the government to keep spending in the absence of a budget. The “omnibus” package—“omni” […]

As Illegals Take, Are Americans Free?

By Alieta Eck, M.D. We do not have “universal health care.” We have mandatory free “health care for the universe.” A middle-aged woman came to our local emergency room, suitcase in tow, complaining of a […]