The $750 Pill and the Shackles of Serfdom
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. How can the price of a pill leap from $13.50 to $750? Only because of third-party payment, writes Charles Hugh Smith. It’s time to […]
Health Policy Legislative Update – 9/22/2015
Another Privacy Grab in Sheep’s Clothing Is any health information private? Is any health information really non-identifiable? On September 8, 2015 the House passed H.R. 1725, the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorizing Act […]
ObamaCare Continues to “Work Better Than Intended”—to Destroy American Medicine
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total number of uninsured dropped from 45.2 million in 2013 to 36.7 million in 2014—a net of […]
Bubbles Expand; Real Economy Contracts
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. One of the most important and damaging ObamaCare provisions has largely gone unnoticed by the general public, but the Medicaid expansion bubble threatens to […]
AAPS Applauds Victory in Lawsuit to Stop $175 Billion in Government Handouts to Insurance Companies
A stunning victory in a lawsuit brought by the House of Representatives against handouts by the Obama Administration is a welcome dose of relief, states AAPS executive director Jane M. Orient, M.D. “Legal accountability is […]
AAPS Comments Opposing CPT Codes for End-of-Life Discussions
Objections by AAPS to Proposed CPT codes 99497 and 99498 Re: CMS–1631–P The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a non-profit national organization of physicians founded in 1943, defends the patient-physician relationship and the […]
Medicare Is Terminally Ill at 50
In 265 pages of complex tables, graphs, and actuarial technospeak with liberal use of euphemisms like “financially challenged,” the Medicare Board of Trustees 2015 Annual Report uses the word “insolvency” exactly once, reports neurologist Lawrence […]
Doctors Must Defend Human Life
The antihumanist agenda of progressives has recently become apparent from news relating to both ends of human life, writes nephrologist Richard Amerling, M.D., president of AAPS, in the fall issue of the Journal of American […]
Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Will Not Ease Physician Shortage
Additional state legislatures will be considering the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (ILMC) already passed by into law by eleven states. The ostensible purpose is to promote telemedicine and ease physician shortages. It will do neither, […]
Gruber’s “Cadillac-Tax” Wage-Growth False Promises Hurting American Workers
The “Cadillac tax” on overly generous health insurance plans seemed fairly reasonable at the time the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “ObamaCare”) was enacted. But as a close analysis of chief architect Jonathan Gruber’s statements […]
