Sham Peer Review in Action
At the Oct 23 town hall meeting, the administration of Down East Community Hospital gave everyone a first-hand demonstration of sham peer review. Its prime hallmark is that the accused is presumed guilty from the […]
AAPS News – Apr 2009
Volume 65, No. 4 April 2009 THE ISSUE IS FREEDOM The defining issue for Americans is freedom: not equality, efficiency, quality, power, security or even prosperity. Freedom, Henry Grady Weaver’s “mainspring of human prog-ress” did […]
Ministry of Information “held harmless” by contract
If patients die as a result of health information technology (HIT) defects, the clinicians will be liable—not the vendors. Hospital administrators have signed contracts with “hold harmless” clauses that protect their HIT vendors. At the […]
SENATE VOTES ON HEALTHCARE RATIONING: Efforts to Oppose Defeated Along Party Lines
The Senate had a flurry of voting on amendments to the Budget Bill yesterday, including one extremely important vote that could have helped to stop government rationing of medical care. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) offered […]
Stop the Senate From Sneaking Socialized Medicine into the Budget Today
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! Stop the Senate From Sneaking Socialized Medicine into the Budget Today Contact your Senators NOW – the vote could come any time [SCROLL DOWN TO BOTTOM OF PAGE TO POST YOUR COMMENTS] […]
HHS Secretary nominee pushes HIT’s role in data mining even as new report of stolen electronic medical records surfaces
On Tuesday, HHS Secretary nominee, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, confirmed her support for the use of electronic medical records as a way of data mining patient information. During the Senate hearings on her confirmation, Gov. […]
Medical civil liberties threatened by rollback of Provider Conscience Clause
Just at the deadline for responding to the AAPS action to intervene in lawsuits challenging the Provider Conscience Clause, the Obama Administration started rulemaking to rescind the Clause completely. This signals the intention of the […]
White House Healthcare Summit, March 5, 2009
SELECTED PARTICIPANT COMMENTS & AAPS NOTES (Please leave your comments at bottom of this page.) Stakeholders included advocates for psychologists and dentists, drug companies, large employers, AARP, AMA, labor unions, single-payer advocates, National Federation […]
House Doctor Diss’d by White House Healthcare Summit: Rep. Tom Price, MD speculates on why he wasn’t invited
Another invitation apparently lost in the mail was that for Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA) – not only one of the handful of doctors in Congress, but also chair of the influential, right-of-center Republican Study […]
White House Healthcare “Prom” Invitations ‘Lost in the Mail’
FEATURED IN VIDEO: Andrew Moylan, Dir., Govt. Affairs, National Taxpayers Union Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Dir., Americans for Tax Reform Amy Menefee, Communications Dir., Galen Institute March 4, 2009 Contact: Kathryn Serkes, (202) 333-3855 [email protected] […]
