Better Care for Medicaid Moms and Babies
By Alieta Eck, MD One half of the babies in this country are born under the Medicaid system. This means that the young mothers are poor. Some are married, but more often the man, who […]
No, We Don’t Have a Plan to Blow up the Bridge—or the Healthcare System
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. If it’s your bridge, and not one being used by the enemy in wartime, you would want to obstruct a plan to destroy it. But what if the plan is […]
Why ObamaCare Cannot Succeed
By Alieta Eck, M.D. Question: If a $600/month insurance policy only costs the individual $33, what does it REALLY cost? Answer: $600, with $567 less in purchasing power for the hard-working taxpayer who is subsidizing […]
ObamaCare Chugs Toward Disaster
By Charles Sauer, The Market Institute Lots of people, including one of its architects Max Baucus, are predicting a train wreck ahead for ObamaCare. But the drivers of the train, Obama and Reid, are determined […]
Trading in the Obamacare Lemon
This week’s physician-written op-ed distributed by AAPS has been exclusively published in the Washington Times. By Jane Orient, MD October, the month when everybody is supposed to get health insurance, is only six weeks away. […]
Doctors Unchained
By: Alieta Eck MD, On April 26, 2013, The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) was delivered a shot across the bow. Physicians who had been laboring under increasing burdens and requirements have finally said […]
Doctors Ask: Is a Charting Error a Federal Crime?
By Jane M. Orient, M.D., As cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18. After a seven-year investigation, Dr. Natale […]
ObamaCare and the Twilight Zone: To Serve Man
By: Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. During a discussion on the future of health care, a clinician-turned-healthcare-executive told me that the way we “deliver health care” (not the same as “practicing medicine”) will change. It […]
The Grown-Up Approach to the Fiscal Cliff
By: Alieta Eck MD, Imagine the amazement of an Ecuadorian Auca Indian on his first visit to a modern American grocery store. He described the wonder of walking down the aisles, filling his cart with […]
Physicians Ask Texas Attorney General About Policy on Military-Style Raids on Medical Facilities
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons sent the following letter to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Governor Rick Perry, after learning of a raid on […]
