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This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. It was already apparent in 2014 that the Affordable Care Act forces people to buy catastrophic policies at first-dollar coverage prices. Less well known […]
Volume 71, no. 6 June 2015 Some advocates of a “single-payer healthcare system,” notably Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), often begin with a scathing indictment of managed-care plans, including the complexities of dealing […]
Keep the pressure on your Senators. Call them TODAY and tell them to vote NO on H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Click here for contact information for your Senators. Make no […]
You may want to tell your senators they really WILL be helping push grandma off the cliff if they vote for HR 2 when they return to DC after their Easter break!!!! Just before congress […]
Physicians Pass Resolutions Opposing MOC & MOL In recent weeks both the Washington State Medical Association and the Medical Association of Georgia have passed resolutions in opposition to MOC and MOL. Add your state medical […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends: Last night I informed our 71st Annual Meeting program committee that — thanks to the phenomenal faculty and topics they've lined up for this year's event — we are about to […]
When physicians received a booklet in the mail containing notice of a class-action settlement with Aetna, many of us tossed it in the garbage. We have posted a copy online for you here: http://aapsonline.org/judicial/aetna-terms.pdf. […]
Update: AAPS filed the folllowing brief in opposition to government’s motion to dismiss on January 24, 2014: Click to access aaps-v-irs-01-25-2014.pdf —————————— This morning, as HHS Secretary Sebelius testified in Congress about the catastrophic failure […]
Dear AAPS members and Friends, The coming ObamaCare train wreck is set to destroy American medicine and the American economy. It's not too late to avert this disaster by immediately defunding and delaying implementation of […]
The hospital industry continues to push hard for SB 303, passed last month by the Texas Senate and now under consideration in the Texas House. House Public Health Chairwoman Lois Kolkhorst (512-463-0600) has set a […]
