-
Sign up for AAPS Alerts
Podcast Feeds
Categories
- AAPS v Sebelius (3)
- alternative medicine (3)
- ama (8)
- charity (2)
- consumer driven medical care (13)
- economics (12)
- February 2010 Workshop (7)
- health care reform (144)
- health savings accounts (1)
- illegal immigration (2)
- information technology (6)
- informed consent (5)
- managed care (2)
- mandatory insurance (4)
- medical boards (3)
- medical errors (2)
- medical ethics (7)
- medical freedom (4)
- medicare (11)
- mythbusters (34)
- pain management (1)
- pay for performance (1)
- peer review (4)
- pharma (1)
- politics (5)
- press release (2)
- privacy (5)
- professional liability (1)
- single payer health care (11)
- socialized medicine (16)
- Take Back Medicine Podcast (9)
- Texas Medical Board (1)
- Uncategorized (66)
- uninsured (4)
- universal care (8)
- vaccines (7)
Pages
Meta
Blogroll
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Myth 26. Government-directed rationing will be rational.
It all sounds very reasonable: to set priorities, to use the most effective therapies, to serve the neediest first. Rationing is a given, say reform advocates. Insurance companies already do it. Let’s just make it rational and fair. Some say … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform, mythbusters
3 Comments
Senate Dems already panning their own bill
SENATE VOTES TO BEGIN FORMAL DEBATE ON HEALTH CARE BILL The Senate has voted to begin debate on the Senate healthcare bill, by a party line vote. As we wrote earlier today, even though we have been considering every … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, health care reform
5 Comments
Reid May Have 60 Votes … HANG IN THERE WE MAY HAVE WEEKS TO GO!!!!!
(UPDATE – SENATOR LINCOLN JUST ANNOUNCED SHE WILL VOTE WITH SEN. REID AS OF 1PM MST)
Posted in health care reform
2 Comments
Senate Bill Weighs in at 2,074 Pages – Tell Senate to VOTE NO on Cloture
Senator Reid released the Senate’s version of the healthcare reform bill on Wednesday. It is even bigger than the House version, at 2,074 pages. The CBO estimates that it will cost $849 million over 10 years.
Posted in health care reform
3 Comments
CBO to release scoring of Senate healthcare bill
Vote may occur this week! Tell the Senate to “VOTE NO on motion to proceed.” Despite the delay in the CBO release of the scoring of the Senate healthcare bill, it looks like its analysis will be unveiled this evening at 5pm … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
Action: “Doc Fix” not what the doctor ordered
Tell Congress “Vote NO on HR 3961″ Doc Fix Bill NOT What the Doctor Ordered. Payoff to AMA for HR 3962 Endorsement? Survey shows MONEY is not primary concern of doctors, but government interference is.
Posted in ama, health care reform
2 Comments
Contact Senate on Wednesday & Senate Status Update
ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, BETWEEN NOON & 3PM EST, JOIN CITIZENS FROM ACROSS THE USA AND TELL THE SENATE TO VOTE NO Please take these 2 steps:
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
Who Does the AMA Really Represent?
People are fond of believing that the American Medical Association (AMA) represents physicians. But if representation follows revenues, the AMA’s most important customer is probably the federal government. In1983, an agreement between the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and the … Continue reading
Posted in ama, health care reform
Leave a comment
Myth 25. Medical care costs too much because private corporations make a profit.
In his address to Congress on health care reform, Barack Obama cited Alabama as a state in which almost 90% of health insurance is controlled by one company. “[A]n additional step we can take to keep insurance companies honest is … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform, mythbusters
5 Comments
Listen to Take Back Medicine Veterans’ Day Webcast
AMA doctors rebel! Hundreds of doctors are fighting within the AMA after it endorsed Pelosi-Care last week. Where do doctors REALLY stand on reform efforts, and the latest from Washington DC. Also, we honor our veterans! We will be joined … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
AAPS submits amicus brief to U.S. Supreme Court in support of Dr. Wahi
Thursday, AAPS filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Rakesh Wahi, M.D. Dr. Wahi argues that the Charleston Area Medical Center improperly summarily suspended his privileges in a bad faith effort to prevent him from competing with … Continue reading
Posted in peer review
Leave a comment
Reid Puts House Bill on Senate Calendar – Tell Senators to “Vote No to Proceed”
Please contact the Senators on this targeted list, http://www.rallycongress.com/freedomworks/2435/call-congress-urge-no-vote-on-obamacare/ . Tell them to “vote NO” on the motion to proceed on healthcare bill unless and until the bill is made available to the public”. Time is of the essence now … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
AMA Doctors Rebel! & We Honor our Veterans – Listen In On Thursday
Listen live Thursday Nov. 12 from 8pm to 9pm Eastern Standard Time! Topics on tap for the show: AMA doctors rebel! Hundreds of doctors are fighting within the AMA after it endorsed Pelosi-Care last week. Where do doctors REALLY stand on … Continue reading
Posted in ama, health care reform
Leave a comment
AAPS President-elect Lee Hieb, MD Published in Human Events Today
Dr Hieb’s piece, “Immoral Medicine”, is available here: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34311 . Be sure to read her past Human Events articles too!
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
MISSION: Find + rescue the AMA 11-8-09 Houston TX
More info at: http://www.takebackmedicine.com/news/doctors-blast-the-ama-for-pelosi-care-endorsement.html
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
Report from AMA “Shout-Out” Rally
UPDATE – 11/8/2009 (SEE VIDEO & PHOTOS FROM SHOUT-OUT BELOW) In downtown Houston on 11/7/2009, outside the AMA meeting, about 150 people chanted, yelled, and talked for almost 2 hours and 3 television stations came out to report on the … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
House Passes H.R. 3962 – Fight Moves to Senate
Get ready for fight in Senate! Thank you to all of you who kept the pressure on Congress yesterday with your phone calls, email, and faxes. The fight is not over. We are going to need your help to fight … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
AAPS Member Rep. Tom Price, MD’s Floor Remarks on Government Takeover of Health Care
Washington, D.C. – Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) made the following remarks tonight during debate of H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care.
Posted in Uncategorized
12 Comments
Tell AMA to Support Patients Not H.R. 3962
Report from AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Kathryn Serkes, on the ground in Houston at the AMA meeting: The AMA has security posted at entrances to Convention Center, so public will NOT be allowed access to the facility. … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
Leave a comment
House Opens Debate on Health Bill
[Update 8pm Eastern] Phone Calls Are Working – Keep Calling! Your calls are making a difference! 33 Democrats from coast-to-coast & north to south, have listened to their constituents and joined Republicans in a bipartisan fashion to oppose Speaker Pelosi’s … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
3 Comments
H.R. 3962 – Key conservative concerns
The Republican Study Committee, chaired by AAPS member Congressman Tom Price, MD, released their “Legislative Bulletin” of November 7, 2009, which outlines the key conservative concerns about H.R. 3962. Constitutionality: The U.S. Constitution and the principle of limited government are … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
14 Comments
Reports from House Call on Congress, Pelosi Care Exposed & Doctors’ Reading Room
1. House Call on Congress: AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs Kathryn Serkes was on the ground November 5th, at the Capitol for the “House Call on Congress” event and reports the crowd between 20-25 thousand. She interviewed doctors, … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
1 Comment
AAPS featured on Pelosi Care Exposed.
AAPS Board Member Juliette Madrigal-Dersch, MD and AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs on the House Republican’s 12-hour webcast.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Doctors Blast the AMA for Pelosi – Care Endorsement
Will hold public “Shout-out” at AMA Houston meeting on Saturday, including Tea Party protestors Houston, TX – The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) blasted the AMA for again publicly endorsing the massive Democrat healthcare reform bill in Congress. … Continue reading
Posted in health care reform
2 Comments
House Call on Congress
AAPS Director of Policy and Public Affairs Kathryn Serkes was on the ground November 5th, at the Capitol for the “House Call on Congress” event and reports the crowd between 20-25 thousand. She interviewed doctors, nurses and others who attended.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
H.R. 3962 Reading Room – Doctors are Reading the Bill
We know that most Members of Congress won’t read the bill, but our doctors did! This week we had doctors across the U.S.A. reading the bill and posting their comments about it. Also, we held a LIVE reading room … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Pelosi bill is anti-tort reform
The 1990-page of camouflage in the House “health care reform” bill (H.R. 3962, a.k.a. NancyCare) can hide a lot of provisions that would melt in the light of day. Here’s one, described as “blowing a kiss to trial lawyers”: Section … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
10 Comments





