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Category: Press Releases

10-day Waiting Period for Medical Care Proposed by Texas Medical Board Violates Patients’ Rights and May Increase Costs

The Texas Medical Board (TMB) has proposed a 10-day waiting period for patients seeking care from independent out-of-network physicians. It purports to address an issue caused by non-payment by insurance companies, which has been mislabeled as a problem of “surprise” out-of-network medical bills. The fact is that independent out-of-network practices are often a less expensive […]

Trump Administration’s Sunshine on Hidden Prices Will Benefit Patients

Prices of medical care are too often unknown until the patient receives the bill after the fact, so the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) thanks the Trump Administration for rules issued last week to help shine some sunlight on the secret prices that hospitals and health plans try to keep hidden from patients. […]

AAPS Responds to Elizabeth Warren’s Challenge

In her $52 trillion Medicare for All proposal, Elizabeth Warren would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and all state laws and regulations on private insurance, observes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Instead, everyone would purportedly receive all necessary care, courtesy of the federal government, without worrying about the […]

Would You Rather Save $10.46 or $500 on Healthcare?

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats have been promising universal healthcare, which will cost more than $30 trillion to $40 trillion, or  $52 trillion for the Warren plan. But it will supposedly save so much that we won’t be spending more than we do now, despite all the vastly expanded coverage. The various plans would end […]

Physicians Thank President Trump for Freedom Options in Medicare Executive Order, Share Concerns on Other Provisions

In a letter to President Trump, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) thanks him for increasing the options available to Medicare beneficiaries, allowing them to access private treatment and insurance without losing their Social Security benefits. AAPS also agrees with the need for transparency, but emphasizes that patients need access to honest prices, […]

Is 25% of Healthcare Spending Wasted?

According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the U.S. wastes between $760 billion and $935 billion on “healthcare”—up to 25 percent of $3.8 trillion. It estimates that interventions could save as much as $282 billion. The biggest source of waste is “administrative complexity,” accounting for $265.6 billion, but the […]

President Trump Gives Patients More Options to Escape Government-Run Medicine

In stark contrast to Democrats who seek to push all Americans into socialized medicine, an Executive Order signed on October 3 by President Donald Trump takes bold steps toward increasing the ability of American seniors to choose the medical care and insurance options best for them, instead of being trapped within increasingly insolvent government-run programs. […]

Democrats Promise to Repeal Obamacare, and Abolish Medicare

It was the Republicans who got elected on the promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. They didn’t do it, and they blamed the Democrats. Who’d have thought that the Democrats might just get it done—quietly. “Medicare for All” would replace everything, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), Medicare, and Medicaid.  Although “single payer” […]

‘Medicare for All’ Means Medicare for Nobody

The Medicare in the Sanders Medicare-for-All bill is not the same program that retirees were taxed for their entire working lives, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). In fact, it abolishes the current program and forces everyone, including seniors, into a new universal program that most resembles the Canadian system also called […]

Medicare May End Price Discrimination against Independent Physicians

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 […]