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. Continue reading
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.” Continue reading
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.