AAPS News December 2013 – ObamaCare’s Ignoble Lies Dec 6, 2013 Volume 69, no. 12 December 2013 In The Republic, Plato writes about the “Noble Lie”: “It is the business of the rulers of the […]
Volume 70, no. 1 PolitiFact called the promise that “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan” the Lie of the Year. Is the Chief Executive the Liar in Chief—or should […]
Volume 63, No. 4 April 2007 THE PINNACLE OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE The flagship of American military hospitals, Walter Reed, has made national news and congressional hearings because of squalid conditions in housing for wounded soldiers. […]
AAPS News December 2014 – The End Justifies The Means Dec 13, 2014 Volume 70, no. 12 AAPS and many others predicted the destructive effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) from the […]
Index to AAPS News, August, 1986-April, 2006 3M and medical procedure codes 3/01,2 AAFP 1/94,2; 4/94,2 AAFP 10/00,2 AAFP 2/01,3 AAFP 2/02,2 AAFP, stand on universal coverage 10/99,2 AAN on right to die 12/03,1 AAP […]
Volume 61, No. 12 December 2005 PAYMENT FOR VALUE “Payment for Performance” or “P4P” has acquired the aura of like-it-or-not inevitability, like other central planning fiascos such as DRGs and the RBRVS that preceded it. […]
The latest fad, a “free” smartphone app called Pokémon GO, has reportedly exceeded even Twitter and pornography in popularity. One hospital has banned it for employees because they were glued to their screens instead of interacting with patients.
According to the dictionary or common usage, to discriminate means to make a distinction, say between right and wrong, or good quality and poor quality. Virtually every decision we make when faced with more than one option involves discrimination.
Volume 72, no. 6 June 2016 Act I of the saga to socialize medicine and destroy private medicine in America arguably began in 1965, with the passage of Medicare, then Medicaid. Almost immediately, the cost […]
AAPS News April 2016 – Death Care Apr 9, 2016 Volume 72, no. 4 April 2016 In the post-Hippocratic, post-Christian, post-modern era, facilitating or even causing death is becoming a form of treatment, often called […]
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Since 1943, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS, has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine. Learn more