Politicians promise to lower costs and assure quality medical care, but voters need to beware. Here are some common misconceptions about Medicare for All: Myth: Medicare for All would get rid of profiteering insurance companies and thereby save billions. FACT: The “insurance” monoliths would still be there to manage the system. Look at the profits […]
Medicare for All is said to be a popular issue with voters, and the “Expanded and Improved Medicare For All Act” has attracted 123 sponsors, all Democrats. In a detailed analysis, San Antonio ophthalmologist Kristin Held, M.D., explains how one paragraph completes the government takeover of American medicine. “Section 104…makes it illegal for health insurers […]
Many Americans are afraid that they won’t be able to get health insurance if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed because they have a pre-existing condition. They forget that millions of Americans had their insurance cancelled for not meeting ACA requirements. Whatever condition they had went instantly from being covered to being “pre-existing,” states […]
Healthcare is one of the biggest issues is the upcoming midterms. Reading websites and listening to speeches gives the impression that all are in favor of high-quality, affordable, accessible healthcare. But would that be the outcome of policies they would vote for? Is a candidate in favor of “Do No Harm (to ObamaCare),” as Michael […]
Medicaid expansion is on the November ballot in a number of states that have sizable rural populations, including Nebraska, Idaho, and Utah, as reported in AMA Morning Rounds for Sept 26. One rationale is that the uninsured rate for low-income adults in rural and small towns in expansion states is lower than in non-expansion states […]
A bipartisan group of senators led by Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is proposing a bill that would impose price controls on independent (“out of network”) physicians, under the guise of preventing outrageous “surprise bills” and medical bankruptcies, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). It would relieve the insurance industry of its responsibility to […]
More than 200 physicians attended a Direct Primary Care Summit sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the energy in the room was palpable, writes Albert Fisher, M.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Fisher, a family physician in Oshkosh, Wis., is president of the […]
Promoted as simply a way to help the elderly pay their medical bills, Medicare has led to the federal government controlling the practice of medicine, writes Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. “Federal interference has only served to increase medical costs, herd patients into managed […]
More Democrats are lining up behind “Medicare for All” as the midterm elections approach, but the idea under different names has been proposed repeatedly since 1942, as shown in the timeline outlined in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons by Jeremy Snavely. “The last 75 years have seen exponential growth […]
Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, and now South Carolina have passed laws intending to limit licensing boards, hospitals and insurers from requiring the MOC program that is promoted by ABMS and its affiliated specialty societies. Seven more states have taken the partial step of prohibiting MOC requirements as a condition of licensure, and seventeen states have […]