For years, advocates of “single payer health care” have been warning that middle-class Americans are only “one serious illness away from bankruptcy”—even if they have insurance. Obama has claimed that medical costs cause a bankruptcy […]
On June 26, a narrow margin of 219 to 212, the U.S House of Representatives passed a “cap and trade” bill, H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, or Waxman-Markey bill. […]
It is frequently asserted, especially by groups such as Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), that a “single payer” (government) system could “save” enough money on administration to buy coverage for all the uninsured.
Information technology does not stop bleeding, start IVs, defibrillate the heart, or put in a breathing tube. In an emergency, those are the things that save your life. If you need them, the doctor does […]
At a Tucson “tea party” on June 22, Steven Knope, M.D., opened the discussion with the remark that the U.S. just doesn’t have the money for the proposed “change” in American medicine—or anything else. This […]
In his campaign speeches and recent talk to the AMA, Obama promised that all Americans would “be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.” The proposed Kennedy bill, […]
CMS asks that you share this important information with all of your association members and State and local chapters. Scam Alert CMS has become aware of a scam where perpetrators are sending faxes to physician […]
While advances in technology—eagerly adopted by doctors and hospitals—are often blamed for high medical costs, there is one type of technology that will supposedly save billions once we “invest” billions in it and force it […]
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a cost estimate of $1 trillion over 10 years for the Democrats’ Senate bill, scheduled to be marked up in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on […]
At the annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates in Chicago, President Obama made an appearance to court physician support for his ideas for a comprehensive, government-directed “overhaul” of American medicine. Reportedly, he got […]
