If a Medicare patient gets a service performed in a hospital-owned facility, Medicare may pay far more than if the same service was done in a physician-owned clinic, writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. This unfair advantage to hospitals has caused many physician practices […]
In the case of Warren v. Dinter, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a physician acting on behalf of an Obamacare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) can be held culpable for the “reasonably foreseeable” result of “not opening the gate,” reports Robert W. Geist, M.D., a retired physician residing in Minnesota, in the fall issue of […]
While few people really like the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or ‘Obamacare’)—even Democrats running for President criticize it, it might require a federal court to actually terminate it, writes attorney Andrew Schlafly in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Read Journal Article: https://jpands.org/vol24no3/schlafly.pdf The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons […]
Increasingly expansive and coercive vaccine mandates are placing the supposed collective good of society above the right of patients or their parents to give or withhold informed consent, writes Jane M. Orient, M.D., in a guest editorial in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Read Journal Article: https://jpands.org/vol24no3/orient.pdf Public health […]
The antibiotic era began in the 1940s, and with these “miracle drugs” it appeared that mankind was winning what was perceived to be a war on microbes. “But we overlooked or underestimated their ability to adapt rapidly under the selection pressure of antibiotics, writes Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the fall issue of the Journal of […]
Patients who receive a “surprise medical bill” are surprised because they thought they had insurance, and that the insurer was supposed to pay. As Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., explains in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, most people do not have true medical insurance. What they have is a pre-paid medical […]
Bernie Sanders has been accused of flip-flopping on union members’ access to private health insurance. This misses the main point. Sanders is giving impassioned speeches about how all other civilized nations have universal, taxpayer-funded “healthcare.” But what he doesn’t say is that almost all those countries have a private option also. Only Canada outlaws private […]
In the give and take of politics, the Democratic debaters emphasize the “give”—the “take” not so much. To get to universal healthcare, what would you have to give up? Your employer-provided, tax-free medical insurance—right away for Bernie’s plan, in a few years for the others Prompt surgery for agonizing pain—read how “Amy” suffered for years […]
In the second round of Democratic presidential debates, all the candidates were passionate about “universal healthcare.” But the moderators’ probing went no further than private insurance benefits negotiated by labor unions. Additional questions should be asked: Will people be allowed to keep their employer-provided insurance if they do not belong to a union, or to […]
There is an outpouring of Angst about the prospect that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals might rule the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional—or dismiss the appeal because the Trump Administration declines to defend the law and California and other intervenors lack standing. Then the District Court decision by Judge Reed O’Connor would stand, and ACA […]