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The medical record has become a tool for oversight and research, without requiring consent, overriding patients’ rights to privacy, writes Susan Israel, M.D., in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. […]
Faced with increasing bureaucratic demands and declining revenues due to price controls, more and more physicians are opting out of Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance contracts, write neuro-otologists Gerard Gianoli, M.D., and James Soileau, M.D., and […]
The Obama Administration’s attack on coal-fired electricity, through draconian “carbon” rules imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), makes bogus claims about lives to be saved, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). […]
Healthcare reform advocates often attribute high medical costs to fee-for-service payment, writes economist Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute in the winter 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.” It is said […]
While all the talk on healthcare reform focuses on “coverage,” Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, M.D., who practices internal medicine and pediatrics in Austin, Texas, explains how coverage is often an actual barrier to care, in the summer […]
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on small particulate-matter air pollutants (PM2.5) cost the economy billions of dollars. The justification for these costly, job-destroying rules is challenged in the winter 2012 issue of the Journal […]
Tucson, Ariz. In 1966, the government was afraid that a lot of self-reliant, freedom-loving Americans would refuse to participate in a government medical plan. So President Lyndon Johnson forced insurers to cancel the private plans […]
Tucson, Ariz. Not so long ago, hospitals were primarily workshops for physicians, and both hospital administrators and physicians were working for a single purpose: healing the sick. But now many hospitals—whether tax-exempt (“nonprofit”) or not—have […]
