Call your Senator Today! Demand a debate and vote on H.R. 436. On Thursday June 7, the House passed H.R. 436 (read bill) which repeals the jobs-killing and patient-killing excise tax on medical devices (see Forbes […]
Volume 68, no. 7 July 2012 Access to medical care requires three “C’s,” as AAPS past president Lee Hieb, M.D., explained to John Stossel: cash, catastrophic insurance, and charity (http://tinyurl.com/6t67dxh). Cash: the Right to Life, […]
By Alieta Eck, M.D.: What is the best way to care for those who are sick and have no funds to pay? Can the government really handle the problem? For the past 9 years, my […]
By: Tamzin A. Rosenwasser, M.D. I’m just a doctor, and I take care of patients one at a time. My influence, and any harm I could do, is strictly limited by the number of patients […]
Published 6/9/2012 in the New Jersey Hearld. When a young man with big dreams sat down to write his medical school application essay more than 25 years ago, he described, among other things, his aspirations […]
We welcome you to the website of AAPS, founded in 1943 to give a voice to physicians and patients to uphold the private relationship between the patient and his physician. Every government seems to want […]
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 […]
