As we enter the second month of the 115th Congress, Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD is out with her review of the latest medical care related proposals on Capitol Hill, from full ACA repeal to Medicare for all and everything in between. Full Repeal of the Affordable Care Act On January 9, 2017, H.R. 370, […]
This week’s ObamaCare news round-up curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. Republicans are posturing about the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”) through the budget reconciliation, but this is only a partial repeal, which leaves intact the regulations that make the insurance market insolvent, depress the job market, and result in sky-high […]
The Honorable Sylvia Burwell Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 Re: Commonwealth of Kentucky Proposal of Section 1115 Waiver Project, Kentucky HEALTH Dear Madame Secretary: On behalf of the physician and medical student members of the Kentucky Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), […]
By Marilyn Singleton, MD, JD Hillary Clinton recently said that half of Donald Trump supporters belonged in the “basket of deplorables” and were irredeemable. Many believe that Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who treated John Wilkes Booth, was deplorable. While some say he was merely being a good doctor, setting a broken leg for a […]