Obamacare’s Impact on Doctors
This video from the Heritage Foundation features AAPS member, Martha Boone, M.D.
For Independence Day, Physicians Should Sign Physicians’ Declaration of Independence
Go here to sign the Declaration: http://www.aapsonline.org/medicare/doi.htm When in the Course of Human Events, it becomes necessary for one Profession to dissolve the Financial Arrangements which have connected them with Medicare, Medicaid, assorted Health Maintenance […]
Should Physicians Serve the State or Their Patients?
Clare Gray, M.D. of Physicians for Reform talks with Michael Ostrolenk about the long history of this philosophical debate which is not unique to our present time. Plato and Hippocrates argued about the proper role of medicine […]
Why the Government Cannot Control Medical Costs
By: Alieta Eck, MD From the patients in my office we can learn why Medicare and Medicaid cannot control costs. Neither the President, the Congress, nor learned journals are telling these stories. A spry, cheerful […]
Congress “Solves” Medicare Cost Problem by Not Paying for Doctors
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Nine times in the past eight years, Congress has, at the last second, delayed the automatic cuts in doctors’ Medicare fees that it decreed some 13 years ago to prevent […]
Tax Implications of ObamaCare
Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Director of Americans for Tax Reform, discusses the 19 tax-increases and new taxes created by the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Despite President Obama’s pledge to not increase […]
While All Eyes Are On BP, Stopping the Medicare Fraud Gusher is Crucial
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. All eyes are on the BP gusher in the Gulf, spewing pollution over the shoreline, but there’s another big leak that will do even more damage to our economy: the […]
AAPS Supports Health Freedom Acts
This week AAPS wrote to members of Congress to ask them to support H.R. 3394 and H.R. 3395. These bills known respectively as the “Freedom of Health Speech Act” and the “Health Freedom Act” seek to […]
AAPS supports Health Freedom Act – H.R. 3395
Dear Representative, The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a national, non-partisan professional association of physicians in all specialties founded in 1943, supports H.R. 3395 “The Health Freedom Act”. Health Freedom Act – Prohibits the […]
Deborah Peel, MD tells patients and doctors how they can protect medical privacy
In her interview with Michael Ostrolenk, Dr. Peel of www.patientprivacyrights.org also discusses HIPAA, the Patient Privacy Consumer Toolkit, privacy provisions in the Stimulus Bill, and more! [display_podcast] Click play button above to listen.
