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 […]
By Richard Amerling, M.D., Yet another expensive drug has been withdrawn from the market, even though it was “recommended” in a prestigious “practice guideline.”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. […]
