Volume 65, No. 4 April 2009 THE ISSUE IS FREEDOM The defining issue for Americans is freedom: not equality, efficiency, quality, power, security or even prosperity. Freedom, Henry Grady Weaver’s “mainspring of human prog-ress” did […]
Volume 64, No. 12 December 2008 THE MORNING AFTER Euphoria about “change” explodes across the television screens and front pages and at least the coastal and heavily urbanized parts of the land. Huge crowds hitherto […]
1601 N. Tucson Blvd. Suite 9 Tucson, AZ 85716-3450 Phone: (800) 635-1196 Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943Omnia pro aegroto Volume 64, No. 11 November 2008 A […]
Volume 64, No. 9 September 2008 ABOUT THE POWER Franklin Delano Roosevelt remarked that his programs “created powers which in other hands would be dangerous.” Since then, in the name of compassion, safety, protecting the […]
Volume 64, No. 8 August 2008 ABOUT THE MONEY Politicians promise to “invest,” to “provide,” or to “fix” – whatever the crisis, from undesirable global climate to lack of “universal coverage” or “quality health care.” […]
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 […]
Volume 64, No. 4 April 2008 ELECTRONIC PANACEA The current Democrat front-runner for the Presidency has it in his “Blueprint for America” also: “lowering costs through investment in electronic health information technology [HIT] systems.” It […]
Volume 64, No. 3 March 2008 LEVELING Listen to the rhetoric on “health care reform,” with its “progressive” tilt. How often do reformers use words such as “excellence,” “breakthrough,” “optimal,” or “innovative”? And how often […]
Volume 64, No. 1 January 2008 STUPID IDEAS ON “HEALTH CARE REFORM” The American College of Physicians (ACP), the second-largest physician group in the U.S., has repackaged its perennial call for socialized medicine as “evidence […]
Volume 63, No. 12 December 2007 UNIVERSAL COVERAGE While many are preoccupied with fighting the Single-Payer bogeyman which is not too likely at the present time in the United States the real threat is unopposed, […]
