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 […]
CSHB 3816 Set for House Vote Wednesday!
Late last night the Committee Substitute House Bill (CSHB) 3816, introduced by Rep. Fred Brown to reform the Texas Medical Board, was passed out of the Calendars Committee. Thank God! It is scheduled to be […]
Action Needed Now: Texas medical board bill
PLEASE: Your phone calls and emails are needed IMMEDIATELY. This Thursday, May 14th, is the DEADLINE for passing medical board reform, CSHB 3816, by bringing it to a vote in the House. The House Calendars […]
Is it time to calm the hysteria on H1N1 “swine flu”?
Public health officials have been warning for years about the constant threat of a worldwide pandemic like the “Spanish flu” of 1918. About 100 million people died, or 5% of the world’s population. The U.S. […]
URGENT: May 5th hearing re: Texas Medical Board
This Tuesday, May 5th, the Senate Health & Human Services Committee will hear SB 2336 (the companion bill to HB 3816), in order to rein in the abusive power of the Texas Medical Board. SB […]
