AAPS News July 2015 – Medicare at 50
Volume 71, no. 7 Medicare, Title 18 of the Social Security Act, was signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson on July 30, 1965. A fundamental transformation of American medicine began. So did the […]
AAPS News June 2015 – Who Would Be The “Single Payer”?
Volume 71, no. 6 June 2015 Some advocates of a “single-payer healthcare system,” notably Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), often begin with a scathing indictment of managed-care plans, including the complexities of dealing […]
AAPS News April 2015 – Making Disaster Bipartisan
Volume 71, no. 4 April 2015 When it appears that Democrats have lost the battle to socialize medicine, the Republicans ride to their rescue. ClintonCare was defeated in Congress when people found out what was […]
AAPS News June 2012 – Selling the Affordable Care Act
Volume 68, no. 6 June 2012 Although Obama devoted fewer than 50 words to the ACA in his State of the Union message, the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) has signed a $20 […]
AAPS News February 2012 – Accountability
Volume 68, no. 2 February 2012 Physicians are of course very familiar with the concept of accountability, which applies to everything they say or do, or don’t say or do. It’s a very popular word […]
AAPS News October 2011 – We Can’t Fix the Titanic
Volume 67, no. 10 October 2011 Everywhere we hear that “our health care system is broken.” But there is deep denial of the fact that the social welfare state is just plain broke. For some […]
AAPS News April 2011 – Electronic Chains
Volume 67, no. 4 April 2011 Whatever claims are made for them, or whatever advantages they may have, the real motive for pushing electronic health records (EHRs) is control. The EHR enables a chain of […]
AAPS News October 2010 – The Third “R” Against Obamacare
Volume 66, no. 10 The winning slogan against ObamaCare, the “3 R’s” suggested by John R. Graham of the Pacific Research Institute, is Repeal, Replace—and Resist. As consequences such as the ’rithmetic come to light, […]
AAPS News September 2010 – Doctors Taxed Enough Already
Volume 66, no. 9 The first Doctors’ TEA Parties spanned the nation on Saturday, Aug 7, calling for the repeal of ObamaCare, and telling the nation that in endorsing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care […]
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