9/27/2017 – Update on HB 273 – Legislation to Stop Mandatory MOC Dear AAPS Members and Friends, Please take action this week to help keep this important legislation moving forward. Here’s what you can do: […]
Answer: If the condition is “covered,” it could be illegal for anyone other than the single payer to pay for treatment—so it will be unavailable. Charlie Gard, not Billy Kimmel, is the face of single […]
Arizona’s senior senator John McCain, who campaigned vigorously on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or ObamaCare), is now a hero of the Democrats for his one-man blockade of the Republicans’ latest […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Volume 73, no. 9 September 2017 After a century of standing there in peace, statues erected c. 1920 by Democrats to commemorate Southern heroes of the Civil War are triggering violence across the land. President […]
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 […]
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 […]
