AAPS News October 2017 – Drugged America
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 […]
Resolution 01-2017: Maintenance of Certification
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 […]
Take Action to Support MOC Reform in Ohio
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: […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 2: What if the single payer does not authorize a service?
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 […]
Repeal the Affordable Care Act and Return to Regular Order
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 […]
Unpacking Graham-Cassidy: opportunities and red-flags
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. […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 1: Who is the single payer?
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 […]
AAPS Announces the Single Payer IQ Test
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, […]
Survey: More than 90 Percent Oppose Single Payer Medical Care
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 […]
AAPS News September 2017 – Iconoclasm
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 […]
