Healthcare is this Year’s Political Football
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Healthcare is the political football of the midterm elections. But unlike the game of football, there are no rules. And the goal is to win – not for the […]
Want to Solve the Rx Transparency and Cost Crisis? Ditch the Middlemen
As the Trump Administration rolls out more actions to help improve price transparency for prescription drugs, GoodRx is out with an article diving into the convoluted schemes that drive the final prices patients pay at […]
Medicare for All Would Crash the System
Medicare for All is said to be a popular issue with voters, and the “Expanded and Improved Medicare For All Act” has attracted 123 sponsors, all Democrats. In a detailed analysis, San Antonio ophthalmologist Kristin […]
Millions with “Pre-existing” Problems Should Blame ACA for Lack of Affordable High-Quality Options
Many Americans are afraid that they won’t be able to get health insurance if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed because they have a pre-existing condition. They forget that millions of Americans had their […]
Do Not Be Deceived! Medicare For All Will Crash the System
By Kristin S. Held, M.D. Deceptively, pollsters report that “Medicare For All” is popular with Americans, as the media proclaims healthcare a top concern on voters’ minds a mere two weeks before the midterm election. […]
What to Do about a Caravan of Rag-tag Migrants
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The narrative appears to be that thousands of oppressed peoples spontaneously decided, all at once, to flee a murderous, corrupt government in Central America, and walk to the U.S., in […]
Will Mob Rule Fix—or Wreck—Healthcare?
Jane M. Orient, M.D. The Washington Post of October 18 says that the biggest issues in the midterm elections are the threat that Republicans will slash Medicare and Social Security, and maybe get around to […]
Dr. Huntoon Joins Accad & Koka to Discuss Hospital Sham Peer Review
Thank you to Dr. Michel Accad and Dr. Anish Koka for inviting AAPS Director, Lawrence Huntoon, MD, PhD on their cutting-edge podcast, The Accad & Koka report to discuss the growing epidemic of sham peer […]
Questions for candidates on key issue # 7: Public health threats from uncontrolled migration
The American medical system is already overstressed with the problems of an aging population. How will it cope with epidemics of imported infectious diseases, some unfamiliar to American physicians, and some incurable? An ever-growing caravan […]
AAPS News November 2018: Revolutionaries
Volume 74, no. 11 November 2018 There is no secret conspiracy to bring about a socialist revolution in the U.S. Barack Obama announced openly that we were going to see a “fundamental transformation” starting the […]
