By: Jane M. Orient, M.D., For many, “the 1%” are the “super-rich,” the “millionaires and billionaires” (as if it didn’t take 1,000 millionaires to equal a single billionaire). “Occupiers” think that “the 1%” have more […]
Dear Member of Congress: On behalf of the undersigned members of the Health Care Freedom Coalition and our ally organizations, representing industry, policy, taxpayer, medical professional groups, and their millions of patients and members, are […]
The annual game of “Chicken” on Medicare fee cuts is beginning, as AMA members and patients are urged, in expensive television ads, to beg Congress for a reprieve from the automatic “SGR” cuts. This will […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the unprecedented step of allowing doctors until Feb 14 to drop their Medicare participation agreement and become a “non-participating” physician. Usually, doctors have to make […]
By: Author-Contributor, AAPS President, Alieta Eck, MD, There is much confusion about the health insurance mandate in ObamaCare. Its advocates assume that deadbeats will avoid buying insurance until they get sick, thus gaming the system, […]
Dear Member of Congress: On behalf of the undersigned members of the Health Care Freedom Coalition and our ally organizations, representing industry, policy, taxpayer, and medical professional groups, and their millions of patients and members, […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D., Newt Gingrich and other Republicans promise to repeal ObamaCare, but doctors remember what they did in 1996. Just after they “defeated” ClintonCare, they changed its name and enacted the very […]
In a special motion, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons today requested the right to intervene in the ObamaCare cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly […]
by Jennifer Vogel, Minnesota Public Radio Osakis, Minn. — Dr. Susan Rutten Wasson sits on the corner of a bed in the cramped bedroom of Alice Johnson, a 91-year-old Osakis resident everyone calls “Grandma Alice.” She’s […]
Donald Berwick, M.D., Obama’s recess appointee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has resigned rather than face a Senate confirmation hearing. He would have faced intense questioning about his affection for […]
