AAPS

Thanks to Greg Scandlen from Consumers for Healthcare Choices , I was invited to speak at their third annual members meeting and awards banquet in November of 2008  entitled "  Free-Market Healthcare: How Will it Fare with a New Congress and Administration?"     I was on a panel with a few people including Jim Pyles from the American Psychoanalytic Association, Joel C.

I attended the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in Phoienix Arizonain September.  I gave a presentation which was an over-view of the legistlation in Congress in 2008 which AAPS focused its efforts on.  Most of my presenation focused on medical privacy and health information technology related bills.   I did speak briefly about the REAL ID rebelliion as well as the need to organize AAPS's efforts in a transpartisan manner.  There were some facinating presenta

In September of 2006, I gave a speech entitled "Defending Freedom and Privacy in Medical Practice" for the Associaiton of American Physicians and Surgeons annual conference. I spoke about Health Information technology, REAL ID, Patriot Act Sec 215 (so-called library provision) and 505 (national security letters), mental health screening and CODEX. http://www.aapsonline.org/2006am/agenda.php