Responding to President Obama’s doomsday predictions
The President has kicked off the health care reform charge in the past week. Last Saturday, he used his weekly radio address to call for a quick solution to the crisis, while his Town Meetings […]
Watch AAPS on Fox News today
AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Kathryn Serkes, was featured on Fox Business News again this week with host Stuart Varney. The topic: has the AMA turned around on health care reform? WATCH THE […]
Kennedy releases draft “health care reform” proposal
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) has begun circulating what Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) calls a “draft of a draft.” The proposal is called “the same old tired ideas we have fought […]
Invitation: Video premiere “End of Patients’ Rights” this Fri.
EVENT ADDED TO “POLITICS & YOUR PRACTICE” ON JUNE 5 AGENDA & RSVP If you were on the fence about attending the AAPS briefing and dinner in Dallas this Friday, don’t hesitate to RSVP […]
AAPS on Fox Business News Thursday, 6/4
SET YOUR TIVO or VCR: Fox Business Channel (FBN) 1-2 pm EDT Stuart Varney will interview Kathryn Serkes, AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs on his Fox Business News show (FBN) regarding […]
Action Alert – Parental Consent Act H.R. 2218
Dear AAPS Action Team: Please contact your Representative (Find your Representative www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml) (Congressional Switchboard- 202-224-3121) and ask him to support H.R.2218 Parental Consent Act of 2009. The Parental Consent Act of 2009 would deny federal […]
AAPS News – June 2009
Volume 65, No. 6 June 2009 GET OFF THE TRAIN In 1993, at a meeting of the Arizona Medical Association, we were told that the reform train was leaving the station, so we had better […]
Baucus proposing Hillary-redux only worse; Coburn and others propose Republican plan
The Senate Finance Committee released three “policy options” papers, and accepted public comment very briefly. The details, filling more than 150 pages single-spaced, were not conjured up de novo, but owe much to the briefing […]
Suicides, psychiatric disorders, and brain injuries take heavy toll in U.S. soldiers
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death in American soldiers. Since the beginning of the “war on terror,” the Army has lost more than 580 soldiers to suicide, the equivalent of an entire infantry […]
Current Status of CSHB 3816/CSSB 2336
CSHB 3816 Scheduled for Vote In Texas House Today, Thursday, May 14th Austin, Texas May 14, 2009 Committee Substitute House Bill (CSHB) 3816, authored by Rep. Fred Brown, was passed out of the Calendars Committee […]
