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Healthcare Policy Articles: week of 10/13/2013

Compiled and summarized for AAPS members by The Market Institute. Another ObamaCare ‘Glitch’: $30B blown on non-operational medical record system The nine-year, government backed Health IT initiative for Electronic Health records has been a disaster. […]

ObamaCare: Sold to the Highest Bidder

By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD, The Affordable Care Act is like the television show Storage Wars, where unclaimed items in storage lockers are auctioned off after a quick peek through the door. People bid […]

Message from AAPS President, Tom Kendall, Sr., M.D.

September 28, 2013, marks the day of my inauguration as President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). It marks my privilege to influence and be influenced by the board of directors–medical doctors […]

Washington Has It Backward on Defunding ObamaCare

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Defunding ObamaCare does not really require an active decision by the U.S. House of Representatives. It is the default option—as in what happens if you don’t do something. Constitutionally, the […]

ObamaCare Is about Your Money, Not Your Health

By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D., “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying all the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx The politics of selling the Affordable Care […]

If You Don’t Like ObamaCare, Can You Quit?

By G. Keith Smith, MD – http://SurgeryCenterOK.com At a physician’s roundtable years ago, I asked Senator Orrin Hatch why I couldn’t punch out of Social Security, happy to leave all that I had paid “into […]

Physicians Must Win War of Words, Defeat Dialectic of Deceit

Powerful forces are taking control of medical decisions away from patients and physicians, using the manipulative power of words, writes Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, M.D., president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), in the […]

AAPS News September 2013 – Regulopathy

Volume 69, no. 9 September 2013 In the Age of Regulopathy, hospital routine must include exercises like daily Foley Rounds, writes assistant professor of surgery Peter K. Kim, M.D., of Albert Einstein School of Medicine. […]

Obama, the Great Defunder

Obama has announced that he will defund the entire government rather than sign a bill that does not contain funding for ObamaCare. Senator Harry Reid has said he will not let the U.S. Senate pass […]