By: G. Keith Smith, M.D. – http://SurgeryCenterOK.com My introduction to the practice of medicine began before I went to medical school. Dr. Don Garrett and Dr. Richard Allgood, both thoracic surgeons, allowed me to spend […]
One of our members posed some very good questions about whether a private doctor is allowed to treat a Medicaid beneficiary as a private patient–and whether, once signed up for Medicaid, a patient is allowed […]
Summary by The Market Institute of Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #4145 The Heritage Foundation recently released Issue Brief #4145 regarding a couple of myths surrounding the Affordable Care Act and the way it is impacting […]
Once again, the American Medical Association is calling on patients and doctors to barrage Congress with pleas to permanently end the Clinton-Gingrich Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for cutting Medicare costs. The SGR threatens increasingly […]
By: G. Keith Smith, M.D. – http://SurgeryCenterOK.com The Unaffordable Care Act (UCA) is about to become even more unaffordable, thanks to the unpredicted wisdom of the younger generation. Recognizing yet another Ponzi scheme in UCA, […]
Hearing Description: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently met to examine the risk corridor and reinsurance programs that will cover losses for health insurers. There is a concern that the competitive marketplaces will […]
Compiled by The Market Institute The Congressional Budget Office is dropping it’s Obamacare exchange enrollment estimates to 6 million people and project a loss of at least 2 million full-time jobs from the health law […]
On January 28, 2013 AAPS along with Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom and individual physicians filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in support of Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit against mandates […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD Trust in our government was a mere 19 percent in 2013 according to Pew Research Center. Not surprisingly, 56 per cent of Americans think it is not the government’s […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. Democrats excel at “message discipline”—sticking to talking points whether their script is factually correct or not. Repeated often enough, the script becomes “truth.” Democrats’ script says: “The U.S. healthcare system […]
