Category Archives: consumer driven medical care

Enslavement by Health Insurance

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By: Richard Amerling, MD

“You load sixteen tons, what do you get,
another day older and deeper in debt,
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go,
I owe my soul to the company store”
 
—-“Sixteen Tons”    Merle Travis
 
According to Wikipedia, the “company store” in this classic country song refers to the “truck system” where employees are paid in substitute currency, known as “scrip.”  This limits employees’ ability to choose how to spend earnings, generally to the benefit of the employer.  In closed economic systems, such as existed in various mining towns, workers had little choice but to buy from the company store, which often led to significant indebtedness, limiting their ability to leave the system.  This created a form of indentured servitude, prompting legislation that made payment in other than legal tender illegal.   Continue reading →

Can You and Your Doctor Thrive without Medicare and Insurance Plans?

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By George Watson, D.O.

(Note: Dr. Watson spoke at the Salina, KS teaparty last week.  Click here to watch a video clip.)

Patients and doctors need to ask: what should a medical practice be like?

For doctors: Would you like more time with your patients; fewer or no insurance company hassles and prior authorizations, and less paperwork? Would you like to determine a fair price for your service, together with your patient? Would you like your daily receipts to equal your daily charges? Would you like to be called “Doctor” rather than “Provider”? Continue reading →

AAPS member on Neil Cavuto – “Will Not Comply”

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AAPS member Linda Johnston, MD wrote her patients on Tuesday following the signing of the health care “reform” bill.  Her letter read in part:

“I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program. I will still provide you with the same medical services that I always have, but the interaction will be exclusively and privately between you and me.” Continue reading →

Opting Out of the Third Party System Will Save The Patient-Doctor Relationship

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by Richard Amerling, MD

Now that the Senate version of ObamaCare is moments from becoming the law of the land, we need strategies to safeguard the doctor-patient relationship from government intrusion.   The most effective approach is for both patients and physicians to opt out of the third party payment system.

From the patients’ perspective, opting out makes sense.  Continue reading →

Physicians Urged to Declare Independence from Government, Other Third Parties

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The Single Party finally bought enough votes to get the Senate-passed healthcare reform through the House, but its victory celebrations may be premature, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). AAPS has been a voice for independence of doctors and patients since “healthcare reform” was first promoted in 1943. Continue reading →