By Jane M. Orient, M.D.: If anyone proposes a substantial reform to Medicare, you can be sure that demagogues will immediately wail that it will end “Medicare as we know it.” It is also absolutely […]
Volume 68, no. 6 June 2012 Although Obama devoted fewer than 50 words to the ACA in his State of the Union message, the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) has signed a $20 […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD The mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers that Americans remember each May are strikingly different from “Julia,” the star of Obama’s political campaign. We cannot see helpless Julia as Molly Pitcher, stepping […]
AAPS issued the following press release today marking the conclusion of the 1st Take Back the Profession doctors coalition meeting this past weekend in San Diego. Physicians need to work with their patients to take […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD, Proponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have a very costly, tax-payer funded national advertising campaign—posing as “protectors” of Medicare—even as the massively unpopular law cut $500-$800 billion […]
Volume 68, no. 5 May 2012 In an astonishing attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, Barack Obama called the justices as “an unelected group of people” who could “somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed […]
By George Watson, D.O.: Retired Dr. Bill Roy proved again why he is a former Congressman from Kansas in a recent op-ed “GOP Solutions for Health Care Are Fairy Tales”. The correct statement is, “Both […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD, October 2011 brought an overlooked but devastating ruling by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), an unelected bureaucrat, to further damage your Constitutional rights. Kathleen Sebelius decreed that all […]
By Alieta Eck, MD, The American Board of Internal Medicine is on a mission to curtail unnecessary medical testing, suggesting that physicians order too much and thus drive up the cost of care. Dr. Christine […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., Two years ago, on March 23, 2010, the new healthcare law was signed into being so that “we could all see what is in the bill,” as Nancy Pelosi promised. […]
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