AARP rakes in cash from seniors’ insurance
Seniors may think they save money when they buy AARP insurance, but if they take the trouble to compare competing products, they may be paying twice as much. AARP brought in nearly half a billion […]
AMA advocates mandatory insurance and a progressive health insurance tax on “rich”
In its new health reform policy, replacing Health Access America, the American Medical Association writes: “We also believe that individuals with high incomes have a responsibility to obtain coverage for themselves and their families.” Persons […]
Women get better care in the United States than in Canada or England
The Obama-Biden transition team has specifically used the failure to reach all women with mammography screening as a reason for greater government control of medicine. It states that only 71.8% of women age 50 to […]
Doctors at “house party” deplore destructive “reform” ideas
The Obama team has allowed a mere two weeks, over the busy holiday season, for collecting all the “input” they need for rapidly forcing a radical “health system reform” plan through Congress. House parties are […]
Kennedy plan called a bailout for merciless industry
Insurance industry support for “health care reform” apparently has a big price tag: forcing 46 million Americans to become potential customers. An individual mandate to purchase insurance could help to offset looming cuts to Medicare […]
Doctors at “house party” deplore destructive “reform” ideas | AAPS News of the Day Blog
Posted on December 26, 2008 The Obama team has allowed a mere two weeks, over the busy holiday season, for collecting all the “input” they need for rapidly forcing a radical “health system reform” plan […]
Massachusetts resorts to group visits with the doctor
Massachusetts, the proud model for likely Obama-Kennedy reform, is trying a new answer for the problem of a severe doctor shortage: group appointments. Deluged with demand from newly insured patients, doctors have no room on […]
AAPS News – Dec 2008
Volume 64, No. 12 December 2008 THE MORNING AFTER Euphoria about “change” explodes across the television screens and front pages and at least the coastal and heavily urbanized parts of the land. Huge crowds hitherto […]
Statins touted for persons with normal cholesterol levels
Front-page headlines worldwide announced the “stunning” results of a trial of rosuvastatin (Crestor) in “apparently healthy men and women” with an LDL-cholesterol less than 130 mg/dL (3.4 mmol/L). Serious heart problems were reportedly reduced by […]
Universal care striking out in “laboratories of democracy”
Hawaii is ending the only state universal child health-care program in the country, after just 7 months. The Keiki (Child) Care Plan was designed to offer health care insurance to the children of parents who […]
