AAPS News – July 2008
Volume 64, No. 7 July 2008 EMR A NON-CONSENTED EXPERIMENT The biggest barrier to acceptance of the electronic medical or health record (EMR/EHR) is said to be physician resistance. Cost, of course, is one enormous […]
Nonsmoking, persons of normal weight have highest lifetime medical costs; Japan passes anti-flab law
Politicians and others usually list the funding of prevention and chronic disease management programs as a key method of achieving cost containment. Smoking and obesity are most frequently mentioned as risk factors to target. In […]
Few out-patient physicians have access to full-function EHR systems
According to a summary report on a comprehensive national survey, more than eight out of 10 physicians practicing in an ambulatory setting have no access to any form of electronic health record (EHR), and only […]
Retirees projected to need $225,000 per couple for medical costs
According to an annual study released by Fidelity Investments, a couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 to cover lifetime medical costs. The study assumes no employer-sponsored retiree coverage. It includes Medicare premium payments, […]
Sabotaging health savings accounts
Nothing probably shows the potential of health savings accounts (HSAs) better than their enemies’ attempts to wreck them. An attempt to load on costly administrative requirements passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate. […]
Texas Medical Board to host town-hall meetings
After much criticism and the filing of a lawsuit by AAPS against it, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will host a series of town hall meetings this summer. This exercise is supposedly to “gather input […]
Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act costs opposed by 90% of Americans, as tax revolt spreads in Europe
The Senate is poised to vote on S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade scheme for reducing carbon emissions, which would cost the U.S. economy an estimated $1 trillion to $2.8 trillion by 2050. When gasoline and […]
Doctors support national health insurance, claims press
Widely trumpeted in the press, a nonscientific survey shows that 59% of American physicians purportedly favor legislation to establish national health insurance (NHI), while only 32% are opposed. “The debate over physician support of national […]
Poling case intensifies debate; vaccine-autism link worth investigating, says former NIH director
The U.S. vaccine court recently conceded that the brain damage suffered by Hannah Poling, who has a coexisting mitochondrial disorder, stemmed from her exposure to five vaccines. “I would not be too quick to dismiss Hannah as an anomaly,” writes Bernadine Healy, M.D., former director of the National Institutes of Health and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
32,000 scientists dissent from global-warming “consensus”
At a press conference on May 19, Arthur Robinson, Ph.D., announced the release of the names of 32,000 scientists who have signed a strongly worded petition dissenting from the alarmist assertions of Al Gore and […]
