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It is mentioned, almost in passing, that the “healthcare reform” on the verge of becoming law starts collecting premiums and taxes immediately, and promises benefits only in about four years.
What kind of emergency is that?
It’s not a healthcare emergency. It’s what might be called a Madoff emergency.
Read More: http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/22/the-feds-are-out-of-money-healthcare-is-their-new-bank
Republicans are exulting over the defeat of Martha Coakley in Massachusetts and the seeming defeat of the “healthcare reform” bill. To quote Senator Coburn, “This bill will be turned into toilet paper,” and “The American people stopped this bill today.”
Even so, the Progressive movement is ramping up efforts to salvage the “healthcare reform” that the voters just trounced. And some Republicans, along with the AMA, support them. (more…)
Dr. Robert Lowry of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, an AAPS member since 1999, has been endorsed by Ron Paul in his run to represent the 23rd district in Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.
He writes: “Most of my political stance comes right from the pages of the AAPS Journal.”
You way wish to visit his website www.DrLowryForCongress.com.
If he doesn’t have a debate scheduled for Feb. 5, you might be able to meet him at our workshop and dinner in Houston, www.aapsonline.org/houston.
The cure for excessive U.S. medical spending, according to prominent academics as well as Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is called the “30% solution.”
Its basis is the Dartmouth Atlas, produced by the Dartmouth Health Policy Group, whose leaders concluded that “if we sent 30% of the doctors in this country to Africa, we might raise the level of health on both continents.” (more…)
An article by AAPS Director Richard Amerling, MD was featured today at Medical Progress today:
House and Senate Democrat leaders, and President Obama, argue that they can “pay for” health insurance “reform” by cutting $500 billion from Medicare spending over the next decade—largely through arbitrary reimbursement cuts,— without reducing the quality of care delivered to beneficiaries.
Yet, in January, 2011, Medicare will implement a new payment system for patients receiving dialysis for end stage kidney disease that will severely ration care to this vulnerable (and largely minority) population based on equally arbitrary payment reductions. These patients will be the unfortunate canary in the Medicare coal mine: “reform” legislation will expose millions of Medicare patients to rationing and reduced quality of care.
The health bills in Congress rob you of your constitutional rights. Here are five provisions (of many) that fail the constitutionality test and reveal Congress’s disrespect for the public:
* Section 3403 of the Senate health bill, establishing a commission to cut Medicare spending, says the law can’t be changed or repealed in the future. This whopper shows that Congress thinks its work should be set in stone. Wrong. The people always have the right to elect a new Congress to change or repeal what a previous Congress has done.
A large part of the savings projected from “healthcare reform” is supposed to come from wider use of information technology. The federal government is expected to “invest” some $45 billion in encouraging (or compelling) doctors and hospitals to use electronic records systems. (more…)
AMA Doesn’t Speak for Most Doctors
by Dr. Lee Hieb
01/05/2010
Legislation heavily promoted by the AMA and passed by the House of Representatives, H.R. 3961, would eliminate the 21% scheduled Medicare pay cut for doctors required by the sustained growth rate (SGR) formula. Yearly last-minute reprieves have postponed the cuts year after year; the accumulated 21% is now coming due. (more…)