Volume 73, no. 10 October 2017 Worse than the AIDS epidemic at its peak. Fatalities nearly double the global terrorism death toll. The “U.S. heroin crisis is so bad it’s raining ‘needles’.” In March 2017 alone, San Francisco collected 13,000 discarded syringes, compared with 2,900 in March 2016 (http://tinyurl.com/y8d8hy6a). Annual opioid overdose deaths nearly tripled […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. | Roundup Archive Obamacare repeal is on the brink of coming back from the dead,” says Politico, referring to the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ) bill. Republican leaders will push it in great haste because of the September 30 deadline, the last day when the budget […]
Answer: The federal government is the “single payer,” collecting money from taxpayers and creditors and distributing it through its agencies and contractors. Most American advocates of the single payer will say they are against “socialized medicine,” in which the government owns the means of production, and medical workers are its employees. This is the monopoly […]
Bernie Sanders is introducing his “Medicare for All” proposal, with the support of at least 15 Democrat senators, including all considered likely to be presidential hopefuls in 2020. Could a “fringe” proposal, which would “never, ever” come to pass, according to Hillary Clinton, be moving in to fill the vacuum created by the implosion of […]
While a narrow majority of 1,033 physicians surveyed by Merritt Hawkins strongly (42%) or somewhat (14%) support a “single payer healthcare system” in the U.S., more than 90% of 1,208 persons responding to an internet survey by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons said they were opposed. This included 669 of 737 (91%) physicians, […]
About 27 percent of Americans die of heart disease, and the first sign may be sudden death. A revolutionary study in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that about 90 percent of patients who experienced a cardiac event had a specific pattern present in a urine specimen contributed to a sample bank […]
This week’s Health Policy News Roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. In just two months, the situation with ObamaCare has gone from terrible to nearly unrecoverable, writes Justin Haskins. According to CMS projections, the number of counties expected to have only one health insurance carrier in the Exchange in 2018 is 1,478, an astounding […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The President’s remarks that provoked an unprecedented storm of hate and outrage were made at a press conference about—infrastructure. President Trump explained why our infrastructure is in such terrible shape. There’s the permitting process that delays projects for years or decades, and causes costs to double, triple, quintuple, or more. […]
Volume 73, no. 8 August 2017 At one point in the Senate debate over ObamaCare, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) introduced an amendment that would allow insurers to offer plans that were not compliant with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) so long as they offered at least one plan that was: an opening for a free […]
In his oped published in the Arizona Republic on August 30, EJ Montini severely mischaracterizes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. We’d like a chance to set the record straight. Mr. Montini apparently heavily relies on an attack piece against AAPS and Dr. Kelli Ward published by a far left publication, Mother Jones, without […]