In response to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) request for feedback on a proposal to allow employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) to pay premiums for ACA-qualified individual health plans, physicians overwhelmingly asked the IRS to […]
A global epidemic of attacks on ethical physicians, which endangers patients, was a focus of the 13th UNESCO World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law, held Nov 27-29, at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem. […]
On the first day of 2019 we lost a hero of American medicine, Curtis Webb Caine, Sr., M.D. Funeral and Celebration of Life service information is available here. President of AAPS in 1980-1981, Dr. Caine, […]
Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. Health-related costs account for about 8 percent of the average household’s annual spending, up from 5 percent in 1984, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,[1] [1] and are a concern […]
Volume 75, no. 1 January 2019 That the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional is simply a fact, as AAPS argued in the lawsuit it filed days after ACA was enacted in 2010 (AAPS v. […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Paris is in flames over a fuel tax increase that would pile 30 cents onto the $7.06 per gallon price paid by citizens whose average monthly salary is $2,753.This […]
Physicians Health Programs (PHPs) are part of the medical regulatory-therapeutic complex intended to protect the public from impaired physicians. Initially, they were supposed to provide a benevolent means to treat physicians with substance-use disorders and […]
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or physician-assisted death (PAD) are now receiving strong public support, writes Jeffrey Hall Dobken, M.D., M.P.H., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. He traces the history […]
“Drug shortages are pretty much a daily disaster right now for most hospitals,” reported Pharmacy Times on December 10. Meanwhile, “The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not just seeing an increase in drug […]
Of the more than $3 trillion dollars per year spent worldwide on health services, an untold amount is drained through corruption, according to the non-governmental anticorruption watchdog Transparency International. Albert Fisher, M.D., comments on the sources of […]
