Answer: $32 trillion over 10 years is one guess. Actually, it will devour every dollar that can be taken from taxpayers or creditors and diverted to the system. Bernie Sanders himself pegged the price of […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Have we lost our collective minds? A mass shooting with no readily apparent motive is an extreme representation of our sense that our social fabric is unraveling. This is […]
Answer: Whomever it pleases. Some money will trickle down to those who help patients, but 40% or more may be siphoned off en route. It is often asserted that Medicare is the very model of […]
Your advocacy in support of HB 273 is making a difference! This past week, the OSMA held an emergency meeting and adopted a position in support of HB 273 to stop MOC mandates. The next […]
Answer: Younger and less experienced physicians, foreign physicians, subservient physicians, non-physicians—or possibly no one. Having an insurance card doesn’t help if there are 50 people ahead of you in the waiting room—and the doctor is […]
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 […]
Whereas: board certification and the corporate product known as “maintenance of certification” (MOC) are arbitrary constructs of private entities that exclude physicians from practice as an advertising and guild-exclusionary mechanisms; Whereas: such limitations constitute an […]
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 […]
