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AAPS News September 2016 – Inflection Point

Medicine is at a “critical inflection point,” write Victor Dzau and J. Michael McGinnis of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Mark McClellan of Duke University (JAMA 8/16/16). The NAM is launching a massive initiative on “Vital Directions for Health Care” at a Sep 26 meeting in Washington, D.C., (http://tinyurl.com/z4shr2b), bringing together more than 100 “trusted health and health care leaders” to “ensure nonpartisan, evidence-based analysis” in the context of the upcoming change in administration.

MACRA (“Doc Fix”) Rule Can’t Be Fixed

To great applause from the American Medical Association (AMA), Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), almost unanimously. It was hailed as the repeal of the notorious Clinton-Gingrich sustained growth […]

What Difference, at This Point, Does It Make?

By Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D. If Hillary Clinton’s partisans were doing an inventory of her purported vast accomplishments over the past 43 years, there are a number of items they might wish to leave out: Her […]

AAPS News – Dec 2006

Volume 62, No. 12 December 2006 THE PERILS OF “HEALTH CARE” With the party of Hillary Clinton in the ascendancy, we will expect more pressure to “just get it done” and enact a national, monolithic […]

AAPS News – Dec 2004

1601 N. Tucson Blvd. Suite 9 Tucson, AZ 85716-3450 Phone: (800) 635-1196 Hotline: (800) 419-4777 Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943Omnia pro aegroto Volume 60, No. 12 […]

AAPS News – Sept 2003

1601 N. Tucson Blvd. Suite 9 Tucson, AZ 85716-3450 Phone: (800) 635-1196 Hotline: (800) 419-4777 Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943Omnia pro aegroto Volume 59, No. 9 […]