Medicare for Bernie
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Bernie Sanders is strongly promoting “Medicare for All,” and claims to be its father (“I wrote the damn bill,” he proclaimed to the nation during the second round of Democratic […]
Licensure Compact Should Not Require Current ABMS Certification, AAPS Tells Wisconsin Legislature
August 21, 2019 The Honorable Nancy VanderMeerWisconsin State AssemblyPO Box 8953Madison, WI 53708-8952 Dear Representative VanderMeer, Thank you for your service to the citizens of District 70 and the State of Wisconsin. We are writing […]
Physician Point-of-Care Dispensing Could Save Seniors and Taxpayers $20 Billion on Generic Drug Costs in Medicare
Generic medications are supposed to save money. And drug plans offered to Medicare patients are also supposed to help seniors afford their medications. But the secret that the insurance industry doesn’t want seniors to know […]
AAPS Asks Court to Rule in Favor of Neurosurgeon Denied Payment by Blue Cross
After Blue Cross of California indicated that it would cover needed care for a patient enrolled in a plan it administered, the insurer refused to pay the patient’s neurosurgeon. This case is now on appeal […]
The Soylent Green New Deal is Three Years Away
By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. In an effort to cut carbon emissions from burials and cremations, the state of Washington, led by staunch environmentalist Governor Jay Inslee, became the first U.S. state to legalize […]
Action Alert: Patients Over Paperwork
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is asking for feedbackon solutions for “Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients Over Paperwork.” AAPS will be submitting ideas to CMS, but your help is needed to help […]
AAPS News August 2019 – Why Not a Private Option?
Politicians who are reluctant to immediately go all the way to a complete government takeover of medicine propose the incremental strategy of a “buy-in” to a “public option.” Public programs predictably crowd out private ones. […]
Propaganda, Pandering, and Politics
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD For the next one and a half years we will have to endure the hyperbole, apocalyptic predictions, fake outrage, half-truths, and frank lies of politicians. Some kind soul should […]
The Green New Deal: What It Means for Medicine
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. The truth has been acknowledged by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s own chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti: The Green New Deal is not primarily about greening the planet or controlling the climate. […]
Legislative Update, July 15, 2019 – Unwelcome Surprises in Bills to Address “Surprise Bills”
Congress is back from its Independence Day recess for a few weeks before it goes on an extended break for much of August. Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD takes a look at the health policy debates […]
