Monthly Archives: October 2009

Dividing and penalizing Americans: the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962)

Posted on October 29, 2009 by admin

The latest iteration of Democrats’ “health care reform” legislation, dubbed NancyCare, is the longest so far, 1990 pages. Basically it is the same as H.R. 3200. Provisions can be broadly categorized by effect: tax increasing, cost increasing, choice decreasing, hassle … Continue reading →

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Meet the Tea Party Express!

Posted on October 29, 2009 by admin

The Tea Party Express is making another trip cross country, and this event promises to be even bigger than the last. Wayne Iverson, M.D., a newly elected AAPS director and coordinator of our California chapter, saw them off in San … Continue reading →

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Doctors on the Hill will hold their own hearings!

Posted on October 27, 2009 by admin

Watch online WED. Oct 28, 2009 If the Democratic Congressional committee chairs won’t hold hearings about health care reform bills, then the Congressional GOP doctors will! On Wednesday, October 28th, 2009, the GOP Doctors Caucus will host a hearing to examine … Continue reading →

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Nurses win temporary injunction against influenza vaccine; Canadians suspend seasonal flu shots; firemen refuse H1N1 vaccine

Posted on October 21, 2009 by admin

Some states are passing laws to expand the powers of public health authorities to force people to submit to mass immunizations: for example, Pennsylvania House Bill 492 and Massachusetts (WorldNetDaily 10/12/09). But public health campaigns to get everybody immunized against … Continue reading →

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LACMA opposes HR 3200

Posted on October 20, 2009 by admin

We thought you might like to see their press release and analysis of the bill. Many prominent members of Los Angeles County Medical Association are members of AAPS. We congratulate them for their successful effort!

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Senate “Doc Fix” NOT what the doctor ordered

Posted on October 19, 2009 by admin

AAPS has joined with 18 other groups representing millions of members to oppose Senate Bill 1776, the “Medicare Physician Fairness Act,” also known up on the Hill as the “Doc Fix.” This bill is just a blatant effort by Senate … Continue reading →

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Myth 24. Medicare is the model of efficiency and fairness.

Posted on October 18, 2009 by admin

Medicare is immensely popular, has very low administrative costs, is already a working model,… it is said: Why not just have Medicare for all? At one time, calling Medicare “socialized medicine for the elderly” caused stunned silence in the Congress. … Continue reading →

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Myth 23. Private insurance and self-payment are relics of an oppressive past, confined to the United States and backwater, poorly developed nations.

Posted on October 11, 2009 by admin

We constantly hear that the United States is the only nation in the “developed,” or “industrialized” world (we no longer say “civilized” world or “free” world) that doesn’t have taxpayer-funded medical care for all.

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Myth 22. “Health care reform” is a moral imperative.

Posted on October 7, 2009 by admin

In a telephone call to clergymen, also broadcast over the internet, Obama dismissed the concerns of opponents of his health agenda as “fabrications.” Dissenters were making up allegations about death panels, government funding of abortions, and a government takeover of … Continue reading →

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YOU JAMMED UP THE WHITE HOUSE PHONE LINES ON MONDAY!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by admin

Let’s do it again Tuesday with emails! Watch Fox News Channel at 9:15 am EDT Tuesday So many of you called the White House on Monday that the lines were jammed.  Some of you report hold times of 20 minutes, … Continue reading →

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OOPS! President Obama mistakenly invites OPPONENT to stand up for him at White House today

Posted on October 5, 2009 by admin

AAPS doctors ask, Is he having trouble finding supporters? WASHINGTON, DC — One of the doctors who will NOT be standing behind the President today is one of his most vocal opponents. But he would have been there if the … Continue reading →

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Call the White House on Monday! Request from Rep. Tom Price, MD

Posted on October 4, 2009 by admin

Congressman Tom Price, M.D. is urging everyone to call the White House this Monday October 5th. The White House phone number is 202-456-1414.

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