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Message from AAPS President, Alieta Eck, M.D.

Alieta Eck, M.D.

Oct 10, 2011

We welcome you to the website of AAPS, founded in 1943 to give a voice to physicians and patients to uphold the private relationship between the patient and his physician. Every government seems to want to control physicians in the name of compassion and equality, but neither can be achieved with constant third-party intrusion. Poor quality and rationing always ensue. We believe in the Oath of Hippocrates, and that our duty is to the individual, not society, and not the State. I joined AAPS as a medical resident when I heard speakers explain the dangers of increasing government involvement in... read more

AAPS News March 2012 - ObamaCare vs. The First Amendment

Mar 1, 2012

Volume 68, no. 3 March 2012 The Obama Administration’s mandate that insurance cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization “free of charge” is not just a problem for Catholic institutions that provide insurance for employees. All Americans have a conscience—even if they are not affiliated with a politically powerful religious group. The earnings of workers pay insurance premiums even if their employer owns the policy. So if insurance pays for services that are harmful, immoral, or criminal, all subscribers are in effect accessories to a crime. Mandates in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) redistribute guilt as well as wealth. Those who don’t... read more

Individual Mandate, Medicaid Expansion, & Entire PPACA Unconstitutional, Doctors Tell Supreme Court

Feb 20, 2012

ObamaCare undermines in fundamental and dangerous ways, the practice of medicine, and harms patients & AAPS is taking every opportunity to inform the Supreme Court that physicians oppose this unconstitutional law. In addition to our still pending suit in federal district court, AAPS has filed 8 separate amicus briefs to the Supreme Court and federal circuit appeals courts and sought to intervene in the pending Supreme Court case. The Supreme Court is considering 3 issues (severability, Medicaid expansion, and the individual mandate) and AAPS has briefed the court on all three. These 3 briefs are outlined below. AAPS Brief on... read more

Accountable Care Organizations and Collective Farms

Feb 20, 2012

By Alieta Eck, MD, President, AAPS Proponents of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) claim that doctors in the US spend four times more, interacting with the many health plans, than Canadian physicians spend interacting with the government. In 2009, physicians in Ontario spent $22,205 on administrative costs per physician per year, while US physicians spent a staggering $82,975 each trying to get insurance companies to pay them. U.S. nursing staff, including medical assistants, spent 20.6 hours per physician, per week, interacting with health plans, nearly 10 times that of their Ontario counterparts. Many health policy makers conclude that a centralized... read more

CMS refuses to answer question: can seniors purchase care with own money?

Feb 9, 2012

In response to a letter from AAPS, the CMS sent the following reply: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PDF Ask you Congressman and Senators to demand an answer from CMS (see sample letter) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services 7500 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21244 And/Or to Medicare carrier (see link above) To Whom It May Concern: The law that established Medicare guaranteed that the federal government would not interfere with the right of citizens to consult the physician of their choice. It did not require that any physician had to enroll in Medicare or accept payment from Medicare. CMS has... read more

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