Posted on July 7, 2008 Perhaps hearing the complaints about the remote locations for its initial town hall meetings, the Texas Medical Board has finally agreed to hold one in Texas’s largest city, Houston, and hold others in additional central locations. Despite the out-of-the way location, the meeting in Midland/Odessa attracted some 45 physicians. The […]
Posted on January 6, 2009 In its new health reform policy, replacing Health Access America, the American Medical Association writes: “We also believe that individuals with high incomes have a responsibility to obtain coverage for themselves and their families.” Persons with an income greater than 500% of federal poverty ($49,000 for an individual, $100,000 for […]
Who’s in Charge of Your Life? You, God, or the Government? Posted on September 22, 2010 By: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of […]
Posted on May 11, 2010 Now that the AMA has clearly sold out doctors on ObamaCare, people are beginning to ask just what this stakeholder has at stake. Hal Scherz, M.D., pediatric urologist in Atlanta, writes about the AMA’s lucrative monopoly on the CPT (current procedural terminology) codes that are required by Medicare and many […]
Posted on June 14, 2010 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 one in the Medicare well. Ever since 1965, when Medicare was enacted, the federal Treasury […]
Posted on January 7, 2008 Many highly regarded hospitals in the U.S. routinely diagnose brain death without following the guidelines promulgated in 1995 by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), according to a survey presented at the American Neurological Association (ANA) annual meeting (Kurt Samson, Neurology Today 11/6/07).Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital surveyed the […]
After much criticism and the filing of a lawsuit by AAPS against it, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will host a series of town hall meetings this summer. This exercise is supposedly to “gather input and feedback about regulation of the medical profession.” “We want to encourage a more active dialogue with doctors and with […]
Posted on June 9, 2008 After much criticism and the filing of a lawsuit by AAPS against it, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) will host a series of town hall meetings this summer. This exercise is supposedly to “gather input and feedback about regulation of the medical profession.” “We want to encourage a more active […]
Posted on October 17, 2008 The basic difference in the major candidates’ proposals for “health care reform,” according to Mark Pauley, writing in Health Affairs, is that McCain recognizes that workers earn their health benefits, while Obama apparently views benefits as the employer’s money (Greg Scandlen, Consumer Power Report 10/16/08). Obama and supporters claim that […]
Posted on May 25, 2010 Listen to interview with Dr. Amerling from June 6, 2010 By: Richard Amerling, MD May 24, 2010 Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were Columbia University sociologists who founded, in 1966, the National Welfare Reform Organization, a “parent organization” of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). […]