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On Wednesday, Nov 17, the AMA is urging physicians to call their congressional delegation to beg for another reprieve from the scheduled Medicare fee cut. This game of “chicken” has been going on for 8 […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Nine times in the past eight years, Congress has, at the last second, delayed the automatic cuts in doctors’ Medicare fees that it decreed some 13 years ago to prevent […]
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. All eyes are on the BP gusher in the Gulf, spewing pollution over the shoreline, but there’s another big leak that will do even more damage to our economy: the […]
AAPS member and director, Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, M.D. was featured in a spot on the NBC news yesterday talking about her decision to opt-out of Medicare. The 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement that again went in to […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D., My reason for not accepting government money is a letter dated Feb 4, 1974, the year I graduated from medical school. My father, who owned a small contracting business, thumb-tacked […]
An article by AAPS Director Richard Amerling, MD was featured today at Medical Progress today: House and Senate Democrat leaders, and President Obama, argue that they can “pay for” health insurance “reform” by cutting $500 […]
The Office of the Actuary of CMS released an analysis of the Reid bill detailing increases in costs and expenditures, and unrealistic assumptions about Medicare “savings.” The bill is likely to make more providers unwilling […]
Medicare is immensely popular, has very low administrative costs, is already a working model,… it is said: Why not just have Medicare for all? At one time, calling Medicare “socialized medicine for the elderly” caused […]
Ostensibly, the vote was against pay cuts for doctors. But it was really about “creeping privatization of Medicare,” writes left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Krugman blames Medicare deficits on the Medicare Modernization Act. Not Part D, […]
According to an annual study released by Fidelity Investments, a couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 to cover lifetime medical costs. The study assumes no employer-sponsored retiree coverage. It includes Medicare premium payments, […]
