Money, Media, and Medical Care
By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD: More than 50 years ago Professor Marshall McLuhan posited that the medium is the message. Now it seems that money is the medium of the message. This month Medical Marketing […]
MOC Reform Update & Battle Plan
View slides from presentation by AAPS President Dr. Al Fisher at http://bit.ly/mocslides
The Scarlet Zero: MACRA Completes Government Takeover of Medicine
By Kristin S. Held., M.D. When Medicare and Medicaid were created, the government promised not to interfere in the practice of medicine in any way. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Act into law on July […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 6: How would the single payer control costs?
Answer: Costs would increase. The single payer would try to limit spending with wage and price controls and possibly a global budget. When something is perceived as being “free” or nearly so, demand increases, as […]
Legislative Update – October 25, 2017
The latest health care legislation on Capitol Hill, reviewed by Marilyn Singelton, MD, JD. Two Temporary Health Care Measures On October 18, 2017, Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) release their draft of […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 5: How much will it cost?
Answer: $32 trillion over 10 years is one guess. Actually, it will devour every dollar that can be taken from taxpayers or creditors and diverted to the system. Bernie Sanders himself pegged the price of […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 4: Whom does the single payer pay?
Answer: Whomever it pleases. Some money will trickle down to those who help patients, but 40% or more may be siphoned off en route. It is often asserted that Medicare is the very model of […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 3: Under single payer, who will do the work?
Answer: Younger and less experienced physicians, foreign physicians, subservient physicians, non-physicians—or possibly no one. Having an insurance card doesn’t help if there are 50 people ahead of you in the waiting room—and the doctor is […]
Single Payer IQ Test – Question 2: What if the single payer does not authorize a service?
Answer: If the condition is “covered,” it could be illegal for anyone other than the single payer to pay for treatment—so it will be unavailable. Charlie Gard, not Billy Kimmel, is the face of single […]
AAPS Announces the Single Payer IQ Test
Bernie Sanders is introducing his “Medicare for All” proposal, with the support of at least 15 Democrat senators, including all considered likely to be presidential hopefuls in 2020. Could a “fringe” proposal, which would “never, […]
