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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
