Dear
AAPS members and friends,
This coming Thursday
afternoon AAPS is hosting a briefing on Capitol Hill
featuring 3 physicians who will discuss how ObamaCare
is impacting their patients and their
practices.
Please
contact the DC
office of your Congressman
and Senators and ask them to send a staff member,
preferably their Health Care Legislative Assistant
(LA), to this important briefing. Click
here to find their
direct contact information or simply call the Capitol
Switchboard at (202)
224-3121.
More
information about this event can be found
below.
Thank you! ~AAPS
Capitol
Hill Briefing:
The Patient-Physician Relationship
Under Obamacare
Currently there is a
lot of discussion regarding health care exchanges and
access to insurance. However, insurance is not care.
Even if the exchanges are eventually fixed, they
cannot assure access to care.
Well before
Obamacare the government had forced its way into the
patient-physician relationship. Now, the government is
looking to dominate the relationship. AAPS members
have long fought this invasion and taken their stand
for patients’ freedom of choice.
We invite you
to listen to three doctors and hear about their daily
interactions with the government from three different
points of view: a teaching hospital, a family practice
(and charity clinic), and an internal medicine
practice that is fully independent of all government
programs and third party payers.
The
patient-physician relationship needs to be a top
priority no matter what side of the aisle you are
on.
Room: 2325 Rayburn House
Office Building,
45 Independence Ave SW,
Washington, DC 20515
When:
March 27, 3:00-4:00pm
RSVP:
aa...@aapsonline.org
Featuring:
Dr.
Jane Orient
Jane
M. Orient, MD obtained her undergraduate degrees in
chemistry and mathematics from the University of
Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974.
She completed an internal medicine residency at
Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona
Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at
the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She has
been in solo private practice since 1981 and has
served as Executive Director of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989.
She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy
Skepticism about National Healthcare, Sutton's Law (a
novel about where the money is in medicine today), and
the second through fourth editions of Sapira's Art and
Science of Bedside Diagnosis. She is the editor of
AAPS News and is the managing editor of the Journal of
American Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr.
Alieta Eck
Alieta
Eck, MD graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy
in NJ and the St. Louis School of Medicine in St.
Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert
Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ
and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr.
John Eck, MD in Picataway, NJ since 1988. She has been
involved in health care reform since residency and
testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the
US Congress in 2004 about better ways to deliver
health care in the United States. In 2003, she and her
husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a free
clinic for the poor and uninsured. Dr. Eck is a long
time member of the Christian Medical Dental
Association and a recent Past President of the
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. In
addition, she serves on the advisory board of
Christian Care Medishare and is a member of Zarephath
Christian Church. She and her husband have five
children, one a physician in his residency in
ophthalmology.
Dr. Eck is currently running
for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District
seat in the United States House of
Representatives.
Dr. Richard
Amerling
Richard
Amerling, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical
Medicine and a renowned academic nephrologist at the
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York
City. Dr. Amerling studied medicine at the Catholic
University of Louvain in Belgium, graduating cum laude
in 1981. He completed a medical residency at the New
York Hospital Queens and a nephrology fellowship at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has
written and lectured extensively on health care issues
and is President-elect of the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Amerling is the author of
the Physicians' Declaration of Independence and is a
seasoned speaker and on-air contributor, recently
appearing on the Fox News Channel and a debate
moderated by Larry King.
