AAPS News July 2017 – Body Counts
Volume 73, no. 7 July 2017 In the Vietnam War era, the body count meant actual corpses with a clear cause of death: gunfire, explosion, fire, etc. Each one had a name and could be […]
Dead Bodies from “Healthcare Reform”?
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. The Washington Post predicts: “There will be dead bodies one way or another, regardless of which way the Senate swings on its health-care bill.” […]
California’s Very Expensive Free Lunch
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. California’s state senate’s unipartisan passing of a sweeping single-payer health care bill, the Healthy California Act, has drawn attention to single payer as a solution to the decaying Affordable […]
Let July 4 Be ACA Independence Day
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Senate has finally unveiled its heretofore secret plan for pretending to repeal the (Un)Affordable Care Act (ACA, UCA, or ObamaCare): the Better Care Reconciliation Act. There’s the excuse that […]
AMA Asking the Wrong Question on Obamacare Revisions
The American Medical Association has announced its opposition to the Senate’s plan to revise (“repeal”) the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare), stating that the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) violates the Hippocratic principle to […]
AAPS Comment on Senate “Better Care” ACA Reform Legislation
“This bill zeroes out the penalties for not buying an unaffordable, undesirable product (the individual and employer mandates), but continues the mandates that make health plans unaffordable: guaranteed issue, community rating, and restrictions on true […]
Caution: AMA Ponders Calling Health Care a Right
By Alieta Eck, MD – http://zhcenter.org The idea that healthcare is a right might sound kind and compassionate, but in reality it is self-serving to those who would profit from Big Government in medicine—either by […]
Traumatic Brain Injury Can Be Healed
Contrary to decades of medical teaching that the brain and nervous system, once injured, cannot heal, the nervous system has significant capacity for repair and regeneration, write Timothy Marshall, Ph.D., and Carol Henricks, M.D., in […]
Psychological Effects of Abortion Need More Research
About 30 percent of American women experience at least one abortion during their lifetime, yet sound, unbiased research on the psychological aftermath is seriously lacking, writes Priscilla K. Coleman, Ph.D., in the summer issue of […]
The Electronic Health Record Serves Agenda-Based Medicine
The electronic health record (EHR), we were promised, would greatly improve efficiency and quality in medical care. The results have been far different, writes physician and researcher Hermann W. Børg, M.D., in the summer issue of […]
