“It’s Not About Contraceptives”
By Jane M. Orient, M.D., In the furor over requiring employer-sponsored health insurance to cover contraceptives, access to birth control is not the issue, and religious freedom is only part of the picture. It is […]
Returning Taxpayers’ Money to the States: Get Ready for Demagoguery on Medicaid Block Grants
By Charles Sauer The hyperbole used in Congress is intended to scare, to obscure the facts, and to blind us to common-sense solutions. Unproductive as it is, we are likely to see yet another fireworks […]
The Contraception Mandate Is the End of Individual Liberty
By Richard Amerling, M.D., In March 2010, the Democrat-controlled Congress forced the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now known as ObamaCare) over the strong objections of the majority of Americans, most […]
Individual Mandate, Medicaid Expansion, & Entire PPACA Unconstitutional, Doctors Tell Supreme Court
ObamaCare undermines in fundamental and dangerous ways, the practice of medicine, and harms patients & AAPS is taking every opportunity to inform the Supreme Court that physicians oppose this unconstitutional law. In addition to our […]
Accountable Care Organizations and Collective Farms
By Alieta Eck, MD, President, AAPS Proponents of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) claim that doctors in the US spend four times more, interacting with the many health plans, than Canadian physicians spend interacting with […]
CMS refuses to answer question: can seniors purchase care with own money?
In response to a letter from AAPS, the CMS sent the following reply: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PDF Ask you Congressman and Senators to demand an answer from CMS (see sample letter) Center for Medicare […]
Shall We Take the Liberty of “the 1%”?
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 […]
AAPS Signs Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Repeal CLASS Act
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 […]
SGR Cuts: Tell Congress to cut interference, cut bureaucracy
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 […]
Valentine’s Day Could Be Medicare Freedom Day for Doctors and Patients
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 […]
