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States should opt-out of government-run health care.
In an op-ed published by the Tampa Tribune today, ASMD Chair Alfred Bonati, M.D., explains why Florida should opt out of any government health insurance plan included in the health reform legislation currently under...
Senate Finance Committee Legislates the Destruction of American Medicine
A Public Plan isn't the only Government takeover in health reform!
The Cato Institute has issued a new Briefing Paper explaining one of the other major threats to the physician-patient relationship inherent in current health...
Physicians score a victory - but for how long?
The Senate Finance Committee has defeated attempts to include a government-run health plan in their health reform legislation. The amendments by Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Charles Schumer of New York were...
Government-run Health Care back in play?
The NY Daily News is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is working with Sen. Jay...
Democrats still not listening to Doctors.
Even though an ASMD poll has shown that as many as 60% of specialty physicians won't accept new patients who are on a government insurance plan, and doctors around the nation are refusing to see new Medicare patients because they simply...
Excellent coverage of the ASMD Specialty Physician Poll
FrontPageMag.com reports on the threats to doctors - and their patients - inherent in the current versions of health reform legislation. We've provided an excerpt below, but you can read the entire story ...
Virginia Hospital Center's President & Chair on the health care system
C-SPAN's Washington Journal interviews the Virginia Hospital Center...
ASMD Specialty Physician Poll Making News
ASMD's poll of specialty physicians is getting noticed. Here's a recent opinion...
Doctors ready to 'just say no'
My fellow physicians and I share one interesting thing in common with professionals in the federal government: We all take an oath relating to our jobs.