CALL YOUR TEXAS HOUSE MEMBER NOW THE VOTE IS THURSDAY! Please call and urge your legislator in the Texas House to VOTE YES on CSHB 1013 by Fred Brown. 86 State Representatives have already signed […]
Please call and e-mail the undecided members of the Texas House Calendars Committee and their Chiefs of Staff to ask them to support CSHB 1013 and vote it out of the Calendars Committee, so that […]
A majority of the Texas House members, 81 of 150, have signed on as sponsors of the Texas Medical Board (TMB) reform bill, CSHB 1013. This bill eliminates most confidential / anonymous complaints against hardworking […]
by Jane M. Orient, M.D., Rep. Paul Ryan has gotten some very important things right. First, $1 billion may be real money, but it’s nothing compared to our federal deficit. We need to talk in […]
This 1974 AAPS Newsletter article decries the fiscal irresponsibility of Nixon’s proposed budget deficit of $9.4 Billion. Compare that to the $1.6 Trillion ($1,600 Billion) estimated budget deficit of 2011! [Note the mention of the […]
The Texas Medical Association recently tried to justify its opposition to HB 1013 – which passed the Texas House Public Health Committee by a 7-2 vote with the support of AAPS members, and which would […]
By Alieta Eck, M.D., In 1821, Josiah Quincy, a legislator in Massachusetts noted that the poor are of two classes. 1) Those who are wholly incapable of work– through old age, infancy, and sickness and […]
President Obama fashions himself a scourge on special interests, yet the corporate and union lobby influence is ubiquitous in his “hallmark” legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In this podcast with Michael Ostrolenk, […]
THANKS TO YOU, the Texas House Public Health Committee passed medical board reform by a landslide vote of 7-2. This bipartisan bill, CSHB 1013, was first on the agenda today and only two committee members […]
SAN DIEGO, California, Apr 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — For the past two years, ordinary American citizens from all walks of life rose up and marched under the banner of the Tea Party movement. The full […]
