The answers to AAPS Single Payer IQ Test™ questions and relevant “take-home lessons,” are now available as a handy one-page (double-sided) study guide, to educate patients, friends, family, and voters who are hearing more about single-payer […]
Volume 74, no. 9 September 2018 A photograph of carriers of professionally made “I Am a Health Care Voter” signs heads a Forbes article about the most important mid-term elections “in our lifetime” or even […]
On September 6, 2018 AAPS filed an amicus brief in support of Dr. Courtney Morgan’s legal challenge against of improper seizure of patient records by the Texas Medical Board. Earlier this year, Dr. Morgan won […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD During the Supreme Court oral arguments in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to purchase health insurance, people laughed when the late Justice Scalia asked whether the […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD: Nobody wants fraud – particularly not in medical care. For almost 50 years, we’ve had a federal Anti-kickback law to punish those who took money (bribes, kickbacks, rebates) to […]
Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, and now South Carolina have passed laws intending to limit licensing boards, hospitals and insurers from requiring the MOC program that is promoted by ABMS and its affiliated specialty societies. Seven […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. “Medicare-for-all” medicine is the ultimate goal of progressives or “liberals,” fully embraced by Democrat candidates in the midterms. Candidates claim “single-payer” government-run medicine will “solve” all the problems of Obamacare […]
Recent polls show that “healthcare is the No. 1 issue for voters,” writes Robert Pearl in Forbes. Their concerns are quite valid, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS): Costs are too high, […]
By Keith Smith, MD – http://SurgeryCenterOK.com Alvin Lowi, writing in 2008, made a compelling case that Prohibition was never repealed, but rather, that Al Capone and Uncle Sam merely traded places. Without a doubt, brutal […]
Proposed changes to rules governing how Medicare pays physicians in 2019 were released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last month in a 1,472-page proposed rule known as CMS-1693-P. CMS says the proposal puts […]
