Volume 73, no. 10 October 2017 Worse than the AIDS epidemic at its peak. Fatalities nearly double the global terrorism death toll. The “U.S. heroin crisis is so bad it’s raining ‘needles’.” In March 2017 alone, San Francisco collected 13,000 discarded syringes, compared with 2,900 in March 2016 (http://tinyurl.com/y8d8hy6a). Annual opioid overdose deaths nearly tripled […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. | Roundup Archive Obamacare repeal is on the brink of coming back from the dead,” says Politico, referring to the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ) bill. Republican leaders will push it in great haste because of the September 30 deadline, the last day when the budget […]
Answer: The federal government is the “single payer,” collecting money from taxpayers and creditors and distributing it through its agencies and contractors. Most American advocates of the single payer will say they are against “socialized medicine,” in which the government owns the means of production, and medical workers are its employees. This is the monopoly […]
This week’s Health Policy News Roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. In just two months, the situation with ObamaCare has gone from terrible to nearly unrecoverable, writes Justin Haskins. According to CMS projections, the number of counties expected to have only one health insurance carrier in the Exchange in 2018 is 1,478, an astounding […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The President’s remarks that provoked an unprecedented storm of hate and outrage were made at a press conference about—infrastructure. President Trump explained why our infrastructure is in such terrible shape. There’s the permitting process that delays projects for years or decades, and causes costs to double, triple, quintuple, or more. […]
In his oped published in the Arizona Republic on August 30, EJ Montini severely mischaracterizes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. We’d like a chance to set the record straight. Mr. Montini apparently heavily relies on an attack piece against AAPS and Dr. Kelli Ward published by a far left publication, Mother Jones, without […]
By: Keith Smith, M.D. http://surgerycenterok.com The recent failure of an ObamaCare repeal effort in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate reminds me of a Mark Twain quote: “If voting mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it.” The turncoat senators had either previously auctioned their souls (remaining publicly in favor of repeal), or were moved by the lobbyists’ […]
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Senator John McCain of Arizona sequentially played the role of superhero, villainous traitor (to Republicans), and savior (to ObamaCare) as the McConnell “skinny repeal” lost by one vote—his. First, he dropped in for the crucial vote on bringing the issue to the Senate floor, to a thunderous standing ovation, days […]
This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Dr. Jane Orient. Senators applauded Sen. John McCain’s call for bipartisanship as he cast the deciding vote against the skinniest of repeals—not a trace of bipartisan support having emerged to repeal even the least affordable parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But Republicans are already rushing […]
This week’s health policy roundup, curated by Jane M. Orient, MD: The crucial pressure to renege on ObamaCare repeal may have come from Republican governors. One of the people Sen. John McCain of Arizona met with before casting his decisive “nay” vote on repeal was Republican Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona. And Sen. McCain was […]