"The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons" looks like a bona fide medical association but it is not. It's a far-right political action group. They have no expertise in infectious disease pandemics or anything else that is medical.
You are outright wrong and should know better than to post like that.
Who We Are:
- AAPS is a national association of physicians dedicated to preserving freedom in the one-on-one patient- physician relationship.
- AAPS members believe this patient-physician relationship must be protected from all forms of third-party intervention.
- Since its founding in 1943, AAPS has been the only national organization consistently supporting the principles of the free
market in medical practice.
What We’ve Done:
- AAPS has successfully fought in the courts for the rights of patients and physicians. Victories have included:
- protecting physicians against threats of HHS sanctions for unassigned billing for laboratory tests at a time when such billing was perfectly legal (AAPS v. Bowen I and II);
- establishing the right of physicians to be heard in federal court in a challenge to a fee freeze (Whitney v. Heckler);
- challenging HCFA’s attempt to abrogate the freedom of patients and physicians to contract privately if no Medicare benefits are claimed (Stewart v. Sullivan);
- bringing to light the illegal secret operations of the President’s Task Force on Health Care Reform (AAPS v. Clinton).
- AAPS sponsors seminars throughout the country to instruct physicians in economic, legal, and political issues pertinent to the practice of medicine.
- AAPS testifies on invitation before committees in the US Senate and House of Representatives .
- AAPS networks with physician and patient groups to inform the public about true free market reforms (such as Medical Savings Accounts) as an alternate to more-of-the-same nostrums that caused the crisis in medical costs.
To serve the state? Or to serve our patients?
That is the question we will increasingly face as government forces its power into every nook and cranny of our professional lives. I once belonged to all the standard societies—my specialty society, my state and local medical society and—dare I admit this—even the AMA. But I discovered that none of these societies stood on the principles I hold dear—individual liberty, personal responsibility, limited government, and the ability to freely practice medicine according to time honored Hippocratic principles.
AAPS Fights to Preserve Medical Freedom!
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS, has been fighting the good fight to preserve the practice of private medicine since 1943. When the Clinton health plan was proposed, we fought for open meetings. And when the details came to light, the plan was halted. In the current battle over health care “reform,” the AAPS helped organize numerous physician rallys and has a pending lawsuit suit in the DC Federal District Court challenging the constitutionality of the ObamaCare insurance mandate.
AAPS Stands up for Physicians!
The AAPS legal team defends doctors who have been mugged by Medicare, or railroaded by hospitals using sham peer review. We sued the Texas Medical Board in defense of physicians’ due process rights; this suit is now on appeal. We drafted legislation for reform of the Texas medical practice act and are fighting for its enactment.
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