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Dear AAPS Members and Friends in Florida: We have two important updates to our alert from earlier this week. Update 1: In addition to the crucial bills mentioned below (HB 1403 and SB 1580) that protect […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends, Texas patients’ access to primary care continues to worsen. In 2019, 129 of Texas’s 254 counties identified as a shortage area for primary care, and as of July 2021, that […]
Dear Missouri AAPS Members and Friends, A dangerous bill, SB 41, is headed for a vote in the Missouri Senate. It is being debated on the floor this very evening. Patient safety has already been undermined by […]
State medical boards are increasingly seeking to improperly punish physicians for political reasons, like for speaking out about harmful COVID mandates. A physician in Minnesota, Dr. Scott Jensen, for example, is now under investigation by […]
Dear Missouri AAPS Members and Friends, Please take a quick moment to speak out and ask your legislators to oppose provisions in HB 348 that push Missouri into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. The Interstate Medical Licensure […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends in Arizona, Your help is once again needed to stop a harmful bill from passing through the Arizona legislature that would decrease your control over your personal health information. Last session, […]
Hospitals and other corporate entities that increasingly employ physicians, like insurance companies, too often trap physicians and their patients by coercing doctors to sign anti-competitive non-compete clauses. In short, these harmful contract terms prohibit medical professionals […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends in New Jersey: The New Jersey legislature is considering allowing non-physicians (specifically, Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs)*, including nurse anesthetists) who have significantly less training than MDs and DOs, to provide medical […]
This Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 1pm, the NJ Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee is holding a hearing on S3240, a bill that aims to push “any person not currently enrolled” into the state’s vaccine […]
Despite state and federal regulations that now require hospitals to post prices, many facilities refuse to disclose their rates. Fewer than half of Texas hospitals are in compliance, according to a recent analysis by Rice University. That is […]
