By Richard Amerling, M.D., Yet another expensive drug has been withdrawn from the market, even though it was “recommended” in a prestigious “practice guideline.” This month’s casualty is Eli Lilly’s Xigris (drotrecogin alfa). A large […]
There is no judicial line-item veto, argue doctors in brief challenging Affordable Care Act. In an amicus curiae brief filed today – one of the first to be submitted to the Supreme Court of the […]
By: Jane M. Orient, M.D. Most political candidates stick to bland platitudes on Medicare, but two are under liberal attack for telling the truth about our doomed entitlement programs. Governor Rick Perry has been accused […]
By: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. It was a sad day recently when a married menopausal woman learned that her recent Pap test was positive for human papilloma virus (HPV). “How could this happen?” she asked. […]
By: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D. Donald Berwick, in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, says “Too many Americans are being harmed by care that is supposed to help them.” I say “Too many Americans are being harmed […]
WASHINGTON DC – The physician members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons are on the front lines of patient care and know what works (and what doesn’t) for improving their patients’ access to […]
While most physicians are genuinely dedicated to constantly improving their skills, increasingly costly bureaucratic demands for recertification may cause many to say “Enough!” just as baby boomers retire and a physician shortage looms. In the […]
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., Kaiser Family Foundation just released further bad news about the poorly named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). American families facing a bad economy, high unemployment, and crashing home […]
By: Jane M. Orient, M.D. When I went into solo practice of internal medicine in 1981, it was very easy to get a doctor to see a Medicare patient. All I had to do was […]
Please contact your member of Congress and ask them to support this bill. You can find contact information for your Representative at contactingthecongress.org/. Congress is currently on its August recess, but you can still reach […]
