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INDEX
AAPS
NEWS
LETTERS
and
BULLETINS-
JANUARY
THROUGH
DECEMBER
NL
- News Letter
EB Emergency Bulletin
8 Information Bulletin
L
Legislative
Bulletin
Name or Item Index
No.
Typ•
Date Name or Item
Index
No. Type Date
A
Anthony, E. E., M.D.
6
NL
May
15
NL
November
AAPS
Amendments
3
NL
March
Anthcny, Mrs. E.
E.
15
Nl
November
6
NL
May
9
NL August
AAPS Annual Meeting
9
NL August
-
10 NL September
15
NL
November
Ball, Robert
M.
17 NL
December
AAPS
Delegates
10-6-72
Benson, Ezra Taft
9 NL
August
AAPS Freedom Programs
5
NL
April
15
NL
November
6-9-72
Blue Cross
10 NL September
AAPS Group Hospital Money Program
3
NL March
Blu Shield
3 NL
March
NL
April
9 NL
August
AAPS
Index, 1971
10-6-72
17 NL
December
AAPS
Resolutions
3
NL
March
Bornemeier,
Wolter,
M.D.
B
NL
July
6 NL
Moy
Boyle,
Joseph,
M.D.
17
NL
December
9 NL
August
Brian
Earl W., M.D.
NL
10-6-72
4
October
17 NL
December
Bried, Jahn T.
14 NL
October
Acupuncture:
Old
Chinese
Treatment
3
NL
March
Britton, Melvin C., M.D.
4
NL
October
Adler, Lawrence, M.D.
14 NL October
Brookings Institution Report
8 NL
July
Aetna Life Insurance Campany
9 NL
Augu•t
Bureau of Labor Statistics
NL
January
10 NL September
Alford,
T.
Dale, M.D.
3
NL
March
NL
April
c
6
NL
May
Allan, David, M.D.
9 NL August
Caine, Curtis
W.,
M.D.
15 NL
November
15
NL
November
California HMO
17
NL
December
American Association
af
Camardese, N. M., M.D.
2
NL
February
Medical Society Executives (AAMSE)
15 NL November
9
NL
August
American Federation of Labor-Congress
Campbell, R. L., M.D.
6
NL
May
of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
NL January
15
NL
November
AMA
10
NL
September
17 NL
December
Carpenter,
John
7
NL
June
AMA
Annual Meeting
8
NL July
Cathles, Lawrence M.,
Jr.
10
NL
September
AMA
Code of Ethics
17 NL
December
Chisholm, Shirley A., Repr.
8 NL
July
AMA
Council
on
Medical
Education
8
NL
July
Cohen, Wilbur
13 EB
9-29-72
AMA
House of
Delegates
8 NL
July
17 NL
December
17
NL
December
Cook County (Ill.) Hospital
3
NL
March
AMA
Legislative Staff
13
EB
9-29-72
Crisis '72
Cassette
7
NL
June
AMA Newsletter
2
NL February
Crisis
72
Educational Campaign
6 NL
May
15
NL
November
7
NL
June
American Medical News
17
NL
December
8-29-72
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Name or Item
Index No. Type Date
Cullum, Mrs. Albert G. J.
Current Government Spending
D
Declaration
of Interdependence,
A
Democratic Platform Committee
Department of
Health, Education,
and
Welfare
Dorrity, Thomas G., M.D.
Edwards, Marvin
Ellis, Effie
England, Robert G., M.D.
England, Mrs. Robert G.
Evans, M.
Stanton
Facts for Patients Series
Finder, Richard J., M.D.
Finkel, Barney
W.,
M.D.
F
Food and Drug Administration
G
Grady, John L., M.D.
Group Health Association
of
America
Havighurst,
Clark
C.
Hazardous
to Your Health
Health Care Foundation of
Missouri HCFM)
H
Health Insurance Association of America
15
8
8
2
15
3
5
8
14
15
17
8
8
9
15
9
15
4
5
8
10
10
3
12
17
2
2
8
3
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NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
NL
IB
NL
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NL
NL
NL
EB
NL
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NL
NL
NL
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January
July
July
February
November
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April
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July
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November
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July
July
August
May
November
August
November
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April
May
June
July
September
September
March
May
9-29-72
December
February
January
February
July
March
January
Name or Item
Index No. Type
Date
Health Insurance Plan
of
Greater
New York (HIP)
Health Maintenance
Organizations
(H.M.O.'s)
HMO's Versus Ethical Medicine
Hogue, Robert
J., Jr.,
M.D.
House Ways
and
Means Committee
HR-1 (Public Law 92-603)
HR-2
HR-9323
HR-15474 (Public
Law
92 ...14)
- J -
Jaggard,
Robert S., M.D.
John
Hall Medical Society, Inc.
(San Francisco)
Johnson, Charles
W.,
M.D.
Johnson, Lyndon. Baines
K
Kaiser-Permanente
Kennedy Bill
(National Health
Insurance, S-332n
Kennedy, Edward, Senator
Kilpatrick,
James
J,
2
2
3
5
8
9
10
13
14
15
17
15
14
1
2
13
11
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February
NL February
NL March
NL April
NL July
NL
August
NL September
EB 9-29-72
NL
October
NL November
NL December
NL
November
NL
October
NL January
NL February
EB 9-29-72
EB
9-29-72
14
NL
October
15
NL
November
17
10
10
10
NL
December
NL September
NL September
NL
September
NL May
NL June
8 NL
July
15
2
5
15
15
9
8
10
13
17
3
5
8
17
10
NL
November
NL
February
NL
April
NL May
NL November
NL November
NL
August
NL
January
NL July
NL
September
EB 9-29-72
NL December
NL March
NL April
NL July
NL
December
NL
September
Kingfisher County (Okla.) Medical Society
NL June
Kleindienst, Richard 5
Komanetsky, William M., M.D. 3
15
NL
April
NL March
NL May
NL
November
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or
Item
Index
No.
Type
Date
Name or
Item
Index
No.
Type Date
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Lom, David
8 NL
July
Nation's
Business
10 NL
September
Leithart,
Paul
W.,
M.D.
NL
May
National
Conference
of
Christians
8 NL
July
and Jews
5
NL
April
1-5
NL November
Nationol Heolth Insurance
5
NL
April
Leithart, Mrs. Paul W.
NL
May
13
EB
9-29-72
15 NL November
New England
Journal of
Medicine, The
14
NL
October
Letter to
AAPS
Wives
3
NL
March
New England Rally for
God,
Family,
Loma, Gerry, Ph.D.
8 NL July
and
Country
8 NL
July
Long, Russell, Sen.
11 EB 9-29-72
Nichols State University
7 NL
June
Lynch, James
R.,
M.D.
14 NL October
Nixon, Richard M., President 2
NL
February
3
NL
March
15
NL
November
17
NL
December
Mc
Notice of Nomination of Delegates
7
NL
June
McDonough, Patrick
J.,
M.D.
NL
May
Mcintyre, Thomas, Sen.
2 NL February
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P
Parker,
Thomas, M.D.
8
NL
July
17
NL
December
M
Parkinson,
Gaylord, M.D.
9 NL
August
15
NL
November
Maricopa
(Ariz.)
Foundation for
Medical Core
2 NL
February
Patient Care
9 NL
August
Medicaid
3
NL
March
Peer Review
9
NL
August
15
NL
November
15
NL
November
17
NL
December
Peterson, Maurice
W., M.D.
7 NL
June
Medical News from
Washington,
D.C.
NL January
Peterson, Mrs. Maurice W. NL
May
Medical Society
of
Deleware
2 NL
February
15 NL
November
Medical
Society
of
Virginia
15
NL
November
Pettengill, Daniel W.
9
NL
August
Medical Student ..
Famil;i:
Phillips, Clyde,
M.D.
3 NL
March
Doctor • .
• Citizen
9 NL August
Please Doctor, Do
Something, AAPS
Medicare
15 NL
November
Statement before
Republican Platform
17
NL
December Committee
10
NL
Septembar
Medicredit
AMA)
I
NL January
Political Fallacy
that
Medical
Care
Is
7
NL June
a Right, The
14
NL
October
Medicredit Hoax
3
NL March
Powell, J, Enoch, The Honorable
15
NL November
Metropolitan Atlantic
Foundation for
Private Doctor's
Code
(AAPS)
5 NL
April
Medical
Care
2
NL February
7 NL
June
Miller,
Gerald,
M.D.
3
NL
March
Private Doctors Institute
2 NL
February
Mills,
Wilbur,
Representative
3
NL March
3
NL
March
5 NL
April
4
IB
4-4-72
8
NL
July
5 NL
April
10 NL
September
15
NL
November
Minnesoto
Blue Cross
10 NL September
Professional
Standards
Review
Organization
(PSRO)
17
NL December
Mississippi
Foundation
15
NL
November
Public
Law
92-603 (HR-1, Social
Missouri State Medical Association
3 NL
March
Security Amendments
of
1972)
15 NL November
17 NL December
Moorhead,
Robert J.,
M.D.
3 NL
March
NL May
8 NL
July
Q
15 NL November
Morals
and
Liberty
7 NL
June
Quality of Life
Seminar
8 NL July
Mount Zion (San Francisco)
Hospitol
and
Quinlan,
Donald, M.D.
8 NL July
Medical Center
14 NL October
15
NL
November
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Index
No.
Type
Date Name
or
Item
Index
No.
R
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Schreiber, Jack, M.D. 17
Senate
Finonce Committee 2
Rarick, John R. Repr.
NL
August
3
15
NL
November
15
Raskind, Robert, M.D.
NL
August
Shuman, Charles B.
3
15
NL
November
Remillard, Francis A., M.D.
10
NL
September
6
Republican National
Convention
Smith,
F.
Michael, M.D.
7
Committee -
AAPS
Testimony
NL
August
Somkin, Anthony, M.D. 14
Richardson, Elliot L
2
NL
February
15 NL
November
Stanbery,
Marie, M.D.
6
15
Rocky
Mountain Health Maintenance
Student AMA 8
rganizations, Inc.
(Grand
Junction, Col.)
2
NL
February
Rogers,
Frank A., M.D.
6 NL
May
Survey
af
Current
Business
8
NL
July
Rogers, Paul, Repr.
NL
April
Roth, Russell.
M.D.
7 NL
June
-
17
NL
December
Rumph. Mrs. Mal
15 NL
November
Tax Americans Dizzy 3
Ryker, Kenneth W.,
Capt.
15 NL
November
Tierney, Thomas
M.
17
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S-3323
10 NL
September
United States Supreme Court 2
S-3«2
10 NL
September
Sade, Robert, M.D.
NL
August
14
NL
October
15 NL
November
W
Saxon, Mrs. Michael
6 NL
May
15
NL
November
Wall
Street Journal,
The
Schenken,
John R.
M.D.
3 NL
March
NL
April
Wall Street Journal Ad
4
6 NL
May
Washington, George
17
8
NL
July
NL
August
Weinberger,
Caspar
3
15 NL
November
Woolley, Frank K.
Schmitz, John G., Repr.
3 NL
March
6
s
NL
April
8
6 NL
May
15
SSOCI TION
O
MERIC N PHYSICI NS ND SURGEONS
2111 Enco Drive. Suite N-515-519 Oak Brook. Illinois 60521
312/325-7911
Frank
K
Woolley. Executive Director
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THE VOICE
OR
PRIV TE DOCTO RS
Index No.
January,
1972, Volume 26, No. l
• EMERGENCY - Nationalization of Medicine
• Government Would
Spend
50% of all Earnings
• How to
Bankrupt
America
NATIONALIZATION OF MEDICINE
See
enclosed summary
of AAPS Testimony to the
House Ways and Means Committee:
Although U S. Constitution
does
not give
Congress authority
to
nationalize
medi
cine, it is now actively discussing a vari
ety
of schemes to
do
so.
• The House
Ways
and Means Committee
recently concluded hearings on several
bills to control medical practice
by the
usurpation of power via subsidies. The
bills were promoted by the AFL-CIO, the
Nixon Administration,
the
Health Insur
ance
Association
of
America,
the Group
Health Association of America (mostly
labor
leaders), American Medical As-
sociation,
and
others.
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW
1 Read this Association's Testimony
and
note
that
political medicine:
• will
increase
costs
and increase
inflation;
• will lower
quality
of medical
care;
• is morally, economically, legally,
and
medically unsound;
• will further breach the Constitution;
• will
carry
out
in
whole or in port, Wilbur
Cohen's plans for nationalization of med
icine
and
destruction
of our
system;
•
proposed
by AMA (Medicredit) is a
trap;
• is inherently evil according to England's
former Minister
of
Health;
• for helping the
poor
is a smokescreen
aiding the
destruction
of our
system.
2.
Order
some more copies of
the
enclosure
(see
quantity
prices below),
and
then call
your local:
• Medical Society
•
Chamber
of Commerce
• Farm Bureau
•
Independent
insurance agent
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Sons of the American Revolution
• Precinct
Captain
(whether Republican,
Democrat,
Independent or
other)
• All
other
local organizations you
can
en-
list to
help
us
save our
system
3. Supply copies of the AAPS Testimony to
lead-
ers
of these groups.
4 Review it with them
and answer
their ques
tions.
5. Explain that
any
of the schemes
before
Con
gress means
many
more billions of dollars in
government
cost
when government
is
broke.
6. Urge them to write their
own
U S. Repre
sentative and
U S.
Senators
pointing
out
that this
mad spending
must
stop
to avoid
fiscal
collapse.
7. Urge them to
pass
resolutions at their next
meeting condemning political medicine
as
bad
medicine.
8. Write your U S Representative
and Senators
in Congress enclosing copies of the Testi
mony. Ask them
in
your own words -
Are
you
willing to work
against
the next step
into
nationalized medicine?
9.
f you get
a reply
that
is non-committal write
again and again
until you receive
an an-
swer which nails
down what your representa-
tive will do.
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l 0. If either favorable or unfavorable, publicize
where
your
representative stands so no one
can
be heard to complain
that
they weren't
warned that political medicine
is
bad medi
cine.
11. LIVE UP
TO
THE PRIVATE DOCTOR'S CODE
OF AAPS.
MONSTROUS GOVERNMENT SPENDING
WILL DESTROY OUR SYSTEM
Senator Kennedy admits his bill
will
cost approxi
mately 60 billions and competent observers believe
it will cost
at
least
100
billion so that government
would be spending
50%
of everything everyone
earns before taxes.
HOW TO
BANKRUPT AMERICA
I CURRENT GOVERNMENT SPENDING BILLIONS)
Federal ($224); State Local ($150) $37
1
HEW
$ 58.063
2
Medicare
$ 7.875
3
II. INCOME OF EVERYBODY BEFORE TAXES
(except Corporations, after taxes) $854.1
4
Wages
and
salaries
579
Other Employee ''income 68.7
Proprietors' income 68.8
Rental income 24.5
Corporate
Profits (after taxes) 45.2
Taxes (Corporate) 37.9
Inventory Adjustment -6.14
Ill. PROPOSALS TO INCREASE
HEW
SPENDING
American Medical Association $ 13.0
5
Kennedy $
60.0
6
(probably would be
over
100
billion)
1
Survey of Current Business, December, 1971,
U.
S.
Department of Commerce, p. 12
2
Ibid., p. 5-18
3
Social Security Bulletin, December, 1971, p. 20
4 Survey of Current Business, December, 1971, p. 10
5
AMA Testimony, House Ways and Means Commit-
tee, Fall, 1971, on NHI.
6
Testimony on NHI, House Ways and Means Com
mittee, Fa
II, 1971.
IV.
FACTS
OF BANKRUPTCY
• Over 43% of everything everyone earns is now
being spent by government.
($374 billions
is 43%
plus of $854. billions)
e HEW now spends more than all
corporate
profits
after taxes.
($58.063 billions is
128%
of $45.2 billion)
• HEW expenditures are currently more
than
25%
of all
federal
spending.
($58.063 billions versus
224
billion)
• AMA would increase government spending to
over 45 of everything everyone earns.
($374 plus $13 = 387 versus $854)
• Kennedy would increase (as a minimum) govern
ment spending to over 50% of everything every
one earns (before taxes).
($37 plus 60 = 434 versus $854)
•
To
further indicate the suicidal absurdity of more
government spending, Mr. Nixon has proposed
a federal
budget
of
245
billions for 1973 fiscal
year which begins June 30, 1972. The current
deficit
is
$21.2 billion
and
on January 19, 1972
Mr. Nixon admitted a current budget deficit of
nearly
40
billion (see Wall Street Journal,
Jan-
uary 19, 1972) which closely
approximates
all
the profits
after taxes of all the corporations
in
the United States.
• According to
the
Bureau of Labor Statistics data,
Americans spend more money on good times
than on health
care.
Last year, we
spent
16
billion on booze and 14 billion for physicians'
services. The bill for recreation was
36
billion
against
$18 billion for hospital care. Barbers
and beauticians got
9
billion
but
only
6
billion
went for prescription drugs.
Use of tobacco was
increased, with $11 billion spent.
-
Sincerely,
Thomas G. Dorrity,
M.D.
President
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THE VOICE OR PRIV TE DOC TORS
Index No
February, 1972, Volume 26, No
AAPS Testified Before the
Senate
Finance Committee - February 9
HMO's Financing Without Congressional Approval
Doctor Held Responsible for Hospital
Bill
Government Paperwork Snows Under Business
Military Waste Medical Personnel
AMA Losing Membership
and
Seeking Federal Subsidy
Private Doctors Institute, Chicago, April 20-22
AAPS TESTIFIED
BEFORE THE SENATE
FINANCE
COMMITTEE
- FEBRUARY 9
As
a free and independent voluntary organiza-
tion of members of the medical profession, the
AAPS testified against HR 1 which has passed
the
House
and
is
soon
to
be
considered on
the
Floor
of the Senate.
HMO's
This multi-billion dollar bill authorizes federal
subsidy
and
control of closed panel per capita pre
payment group
practice for everyone, euphemisti
cally called Health Maintenance Organizations
(HMO's). It would permit financing lay-controlled
organizations for the practice of medicine.
This
is
what the labor
union-HEW political combine has
promoted for a number of years to drive doctors
into salaried practice first under their control, later
under government control. Doctors practicing in
groups, who will subordinate themselves to the
l·abor union-government political combine,
are
to
be
subsidized, and their rolls of patients increased
Practically all patients
are
to be lured
away
from
independent doctors who practice outside the
combines.
We pointed out that individual physicians pra
ticing ethical medicine have been harassed, d
missed from medical staffs, and had their patien
notified by government
agents that
their
charg
are
unreasonable, even though this was untrue.
a consequence of the interference
by
governmen
many physicians
are
stopping private practice
considering doing so rather than submit to su
harassment.
The House Ways and Means Committee Repo
on HR 1 indicates that:
(1) Instead of forcing the bureaucracy to kee
its
hands
off
the
practice of private med
cine, it proposes to
plunge
on into mo
controls. For example, it reads:
a
serious problem in the present approac
to payments for services
in
the health fiel
either by private patients or gover
ment is
that there
is an economic i
centive of providing more services .
that may not be essential
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CITIZENS TOO
DENSE
(2) A second major problem
is
that ordinarily,
the individual
must
largely find his own
way •
HMO TO RATION AND PROFIT
(3)
no
one takes responsibility for deter
mining the appropriate level of care in total
and farseeing that such care, but no more,
is
supplied.
(4) ''The pattern of operation of Health Main
tenance Organization's that provide services
on a per capita prepayment basis lends it-
self to a solution of both of these prob
lems
''because the organzation receives a fixed
annual payment from enrollees regardless
of the services rendered, there
is
a financial
incentive to control costs and to provide
only the least expensive service
Moreover, such organizations take responsi
bility for deciding which services the patient
should receive and then see that those are
the services he gets.
We stated:
'We submit
that
subsidizing one type of
practice over another
is
revolutionary, un-
fair
and
not
in
the interests of patients
or
physicians.
We urged:
1) that the bill be stripped of all subsidies and
special privileges for per capita prepayment
group practice
(2) no subsidy should be added to pay medical
societies or medical foundations which be
come policemen of federal government med
ical programs.
We·
applauded - the stand of Governor Reagan
before the Senate Finance Committee rejecting
nationalization of welfare insisting that welfare
is
a state and local responsibility which should not be
pre-empted by
or
surrendered to the central gov
ernment.
After submitting substantiating evidence that the
real
crisis in America
is
spending by government, we
encouraged the Committee to live up to its con
stitutional duty
and responsibility for restraining the
bureaucracy before it delivers
us
to the enemies of
free men by destroying our private capitalistic system.
OPENING WEDGE
One of the proponents of the bill admitted:
''This bill is likely to be the first act of Congress to
endorse the
HMO
concept, and
it is
therefore an
important step in pointing the direction in which
the health care system is to move.
In
fact, the
policy of encouraging the development of HMO s
has the potential for revolutionizing the entire
industry.
He expressed delight
that
some medical soci
eties were organizing medical care foundations -
meaning, taking the
HMO
political bait. (Testimony
of Clark C. Havighurst, Duke University.)
It
is absurd to think that doctors will be per
mitted by any governmental scheme to continue to
exercise their own independent judgment when the
labor union combine, with accomplices in government,
have been working for years to destroy that inde
pendent judgment.
TODO
l. Write your Senators promptly urging they
carry out the Association's recommendations
set forth above.
2. Encourage all of the following to write,
wire, call or personally interview their Sen
ators urging opposition to this revolutionary
legislation:
Local medical societies; specialty organ
izations; Chambers of Commerce; Farm
Bureaus; Pharmacists; Service organiza
tions such as Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., local
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Republican
and
Democratic Precinct
Committeemen, etc.
HMO's FINANCING WITHOUT
CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL
The Nixon Administration working through the
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, with
out any specific authorization from Congress, subsi
dized HMO activities last year in the amount of $6.5
million. This was in separate grants. Thus, the
bureaucrats are digging away at the foundations
of doctors' organizations.
State and local medical foundations have con
vinced some doctors with the assurance that they
will be able to continue to practice on a fee-for
service basis. However, the 1, 100 M.D.'s serving the
Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York HIP)
have been notified they will have to give up all
private practice
and
work full-time for HIP if they
want to remain with the prepayment Plan. This
is
an HMO type group which, undoubtedly, would
expect to qualify under the Administration's closed
panel per capita prepayment group practice plan.
It is in line with what the Group Health Association
of America, organized by labor union leaders,
is
planning for all doctors once they
manage
to gain
control.
DOCTOR HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR
HOSPITAL
ILL
Doctors who admit patients to hospitals may
end
up legally responsible for paying patient's hos
pital bill. A small claims court judge in Philadelphia
has ruled M.D.'s are liable if patients are hospitalized
unnecessarily. The case involved a nine day hos
pitalization of a patient for a
standard
ulcer re
gime.'' Blue Cross refused to pay hospital bill claim
ing hospitalization was for diagnosis not covered
in
the contract. Patient refused to pay. A Philadelphia
County Medical Society Peer
Review
Committee con
cluded treatment could have been given outside hos
pital. Doctors contended patient was hospitalized
because her home environment interfered with re
covery. The case
is
being appealed and will be
watched carefully to determine whether the judiciary
will
concur with medical societies substituting their
j\Jdgment for
that
of the attending physician.
MORE CONTROLS FOR
PHYSICIANS
HEW
Secretary, Elliott
L
Richardson, on Febru
ary 10, 1972, submitted Amendments to the Admin-
istration's proposed national health insurance plan
dealing with regulating health care insurers
and
pro
viders. Additional provider regulations are:
Under
NHIPA
(National Health Insurance Part
nership Act) standards, health service providers,
must . . . supply information on charges for
commonly provided services, hours of operation
and
other patient access matters, and the ex
tent to which the provider
is
licensed, accredited,
or certified by recognized or official health bod
ies. Health service providers include physicians,
hospitals and nursing homes.''
(Emphasis added)
GOVERNMENT PAPERWORK
SNOWS UNDER
BUSINESS
America's businessmen are spending
181
billion
a year either in accountants' fees
or
in time lost from
regular work to
fill
out papers and return them to
federal and local government agencies. Another
18 billion is being spent annually to print, peruse
and
store the
4 5
million cubic
feet
of
paper.
This
was revealed by a Senate Subcommittee on Govern
ment Regulations headed by Senator Thomas
Mc-
Intyre (D., N.H.). Aides said that:
the
paperwork
costs
are
eventually passed on to consumers as a
necessary cost of doing business.''
MILITARY WASTE MEDICAL
PERSONNEL
The Government Accounting Office on December
16, 1971 reported:
Better use of health-care personnel in all of
the military medical services would help to re
lieve the critical shortage of medical professional
personnel in the nation.''
This relates to more than 200,000 medical per
sonnel, of which more than 33,000
are
professionals
providing this
care.''
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AMA LOSING MEMBERSHIP AND
SEEKING
FEDERAL
SUBSIDY
The
AMA
Newsletter
reported
dues-paying
membership declined from 168,214 in 1970 to
156,943 in 1971, a drop of 7%. At $110 per year
this represents a $1,240,000 loss in dues.
In
the
same
Newsletter it was
announced
the
AMA
disclosed it
is
seeking $679,000
grant
from
HEW which, if approved, will
be
used for
the
es
tablishment of a 'self-assessment resource center'
as
a
feature
of
AMA
Conventions.
AMA also reports
that
four medical societies
have
been
awarded $235,000 HEW
money for
Heolth Maintenance Planning and Development.
The subsidies reported were:
Metropolitan Atlantic Foundation,
for Medical Care $85,000
Maricopa (Arizona) Foundation
for Medical
Care
$80,000
Medical Society
of Delaware
$25,000
John Hall Medical Society, Inc.
(San Francisco) $25,000
Rocky Mountain Health Maintenance
Organization, Inc.
(Grand Junction, Colorado)
$20,000
It is
a well-established principle of the relation
ship of individuals to government that government
regulates anything it subsidizes (U.S. Supreme Court,
1942 Wickard
vs
Filburn). The $85,000 subsidy
that
the Atlanta (Georgia) Medical Society
is
accepting
From HEW
may
appear
unimportant to the uniniti
ated.
But wouldn't those doctors
be
much better
ad-
vised to raise the additional $85,000 out of their
$100
million gross income
(based
on national aver
ages)
rather
than permit
HEW
to compromise the
loyalties of their medical society employees?
BOUND COPIES OF 1971 AAPS NEWS LETTERS
AND BULLETINS
They are now available at the Oak Brook Head
quarters office. Each AAPS member should have a
set
of bound copies of 1971 AAPS News Letters
and
Bulletins with Index.
This
volume contains a wealth of information on
pertinent subjects such
as
HMO's, Foundations, and
Peer Review.
Order your copy
today
and enclose your check
for the number of copies you will need; also, send
one to a non-member friend. The price -
$2.00
each.
CONGRATULATIONS TO
DRS
CAMARDESE AND GRADY
N.
M
Camardese, M.D., Norwalk, Ohio has
been
honored
again by
receiving the Norwalk
Chamber of
Commerce's Distinguished Citizen Award.
John
L Grady,
M.D., Mayor-Commissioner of
Belle Glade, Florida, was presented the annual Jay-
cee distinguished service
award.
PRIVATE DOCTORS INSTITUTE
Chicago, April 20-22, 1972
See the enclosed program for details about the
Institute. The program
is
specifically aimed at shed
ding light on how you can maintain your freedom
by
better
organizing the forces of individu-alism
against
the on-rushing collectivist tide.
Sincerely,
Thomas G. Dorrity,
M D
President
Enclosure: Private Doctors Institute Program
ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICAN
PHYSICIANS AND
SURGEONS
2111 Enco Drive. Suite N-515-519. Oak
Brook.
Illinois 60521
312/325
7911
Frank
K
Woolley Executive Director
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THE VOICE
OR
PRIV TE
D O C T O R S
• Ideas of Mr. Mills
Index No. 3
March, 1972, Volume 26, No. 3
• Mr. Nixon's Nationalization Proposals
• Blue Shield Arbitrarily Fixes Physicians' Fees
• Missouri Doctors Refuse to be Pushed Around
• New AAPS
Group
Hospital Money Program
•
Salaried
Physicians - Beware
• Private Doctors Institute - Resolutions - Amendments
April 20-22, 1972 - Chicago
COMPLETE PROGRAM AND
REGISTRATION FORM
ENCLOSED
• Nation' s foremost meeting for practicing physicians
• Jam-packed with valuable events
• A
grand opening
ceremony - The
noble
history of
medicine. Shaping the
course of history.
• How to influence public policy
and
opinion -
T. Dale Alford, M.D.
• Launching
the dramatic
new AAPS public education
campaign
• The presidentia l message HMO's vs. Ethical Medicine
- Thomas G. Dorrity, M.D.
•
An
inspiration address The Price of Individual Freedom
- Congressman John Schmitz
• What's happening in Washington - Frank K. Woolley
e Workshops for Speakers Bureau, Public Relations and
Legislative Chairmen
• A world-wide view of Medicine in Art. Slide presentation
by
John R.
Schenken, M.D.
8 Program events especially for
the
wives
• Seminars for Chapter Officers
8 Why compromise and collaboration always
foil
Charles
B.
Shuman
For
your
spring vacation of fun, fellowship
and
action
don't miss the big
event
of 1972.
~ted _ o~ pro~;;~~ ._ . ~ r o f ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ l i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .- the
p;a~ ~~~-~f ~rivate medicine.
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IDEAS
OF MR. MILLS
Mr. Mills, in a speech March 3, 1972, said:
''The debate surrounding 'national health
insurance' [nationalized medicine] is not
whether
the
government should become
involved
in
health but how much more and
in what
way. His emphasis.)
The following is what I see as possible major
elements in any legislation likely to be approved
by the
House of Representatives :
Replace Medicaid with a uniform set of
benefits.
Provide everyone, including
the
self-em
ployed,
the same
coverage
at
the
same
price (including periods of unemployment).
Catastrophic coverage ''which would relate
health costs to taxable income.
• Demand must
be
related to supply.
Use payments to
change
our system.
Mr. Mills said he thinks
yet another
national
health plan might
be
passed this
year
by the House.
Secretary Richardson expressed encouragement with
Mr. Mill's statement.
WHO PAYS PIPER CALLS
TUNE
Continuing Mr. Mills said: To apply an old
adage,
we are being asked to call the tune as the
ones who pay the piper [taxpayers and inflation
payers should note under the new system politi
cians think they
pay and
thus become the master in
stead
of remaining the servant].
We
will call a few tunes . i.e.
Require private insurers to use medical
foundations with Senator Bennett type Pro
fessional Service Review Organizations
(PSRO) (which would be under the dicta
tion and control of the Secretary of HEW
with a National Medical Advisory group
to advise
about
diagnostic and therapeu-
tic pract ices ).
Permit no new building or expansion facili
ties without approval of a planning agency
controlled by government.
e
Augment the maternal, child and crippled
chil.dren's program to reduce infant mor
tality and improve
the
health of mothers
and children.
MR. NIXON'S NATIONALIZATION PROPOSALS
On March 2nd, the day before Mr. Mills spoke,
President Nixon called for prompt
approval
of
his
nationalized system
of
medical
care
for everyone.
The federal bureaucracy, speaking through President
Nixon, would nationalize medical care while he com
plains
that
others would federalize it. Congress-
man Mills' plan differs only in detail from the Nixon
plan. Senator Kennedy, while pushing his plan,
is
pleased with the Nixon principle of forcing everyone
to use
prepaid per capita
group practice plans
called Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO's).
See quotes
AAPS
News Letter, August, 1971.
The President in his March 2nd message H.
DOC. No. 92-261), calling for passage of HR-1 now
pending in the U. 5. Senate, said:
The Health Maintenance Organization
concept is a central feature of my
Na-
tional Health Strategy.
He recognizes he is giving subsidies and control to
the unions when he says:
The fact that workers and unions would
have a. direct economic stake in the pro
gram
would serve as a built
in
incentive,
etc.
He fails to mention
that
while he proposes giving
unions control, only 25%
of
the workers are
in
un
ions.
Incidentally, buried in this some message was
the following statement:
''The general health of individuals depends
very much on their own informed actions
and practices.
All of these politicians disregard this salient fact.
Likewise, labor union leaders are for the plan
by Messrs. Nixon, Mills, and Kennedy
as
they relate
to HMO's. For quotes
see
AAPS News Letter August,
1971.
Thus, it
is
quite obvious
that
the
politicians
are merely haggling over prices
and that
freedom
for doctors is
in
dire peril. Likewise, it is clear that
HMO's and planning agencies, directed and con
trolled by the central government, are the
deadly
enemies of all free men including patients as well as
physicians.
FINGERPRINTING
SOCIAL SECURIW APPLICANTS
Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee
is
studying a plan for fingerprinting applicants for
Social Security cards. This would
be mandatory
for
older persons who
apply
for
cards
but voluntary for
six
year
old children.
If we are to remain free, obviously, we
had
better
be
very leery of big brother's advances which
may appear clumsy but, nevertheless, have the effect
of subjecting
the
individual to the smothering em
brace of
totalitarianism.
BLUE
SHIELD ARBITRARILY FIXES PHYSICIANS'
FEES
Regrettably,
the
following situation has de
veloped
in
some states:
Situation: A physican bills patient directly. Pa
tient has full service contract with Blue Cross
and
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Blue Shield
based
on usual
and
customary fees.
Physician
is
not a party to the Blues
contract and
has
not consented
to
it. Blues insist physician must
accept
fees
based
on computer
data
or it will de
fend
the
subscribers
in
any litig·ation."
Also, Blues - will refer disagreements to
state
peer
review committee and possibly State Insurance
Commission.
FULL
SERVICE
CONTRACT IS CULPRIT
The crux
of
the
matter
is
the "full service con
tract. It
removes any responsibility on the part of
the patient to restrain demand. This "full service" or
"first dollar coverage contract
is
pushed by labor
leaders knowing it forces over utilization, skyrockets
costs,
and creates
a climate for government inter
ference
under the pretext
of holding down on medi
cal costs. This unfairly brings physicians adverse
pub
licity; plays into the
hands
of the collectivists pushing
for the nationalization
of
medicine; and lends cre
dence to demands for ''changing our system."
When
individuals must
pay
for their choices,
they weigh
the
cost
and
restrain demand (or,
in
other
words, ration
demand).
As
costs rise, individ
uals resist
the
increases
and
thus individuals volun
tarily
apply
the
brakes
to both increased
demands
and
costs. This
is
the market system of voluntary,
willing exchange
between
uye r~d sellers. The
only other system
is
involuntary
exchange
with either
the
buyer
or seller or both being forced to
do
some
thing unwillingly by
an
outside
agency.
Blue Shield, by selling a contract that removes
self restraint, artificially increases demand.
It
creates
other problems by using a computer to force aver
age payments, and
then
when it meets resistance,
appeals to·
peer
review or the State to enforce its
unwise contract. Discontinuance of the
sale
of
con
tracts which creates these problems provide a better
solution than will further dependence on the use of
force by Blue Shield and the government.
TO DO
1. Doctors should unite to resist such capricious
intervention and thus resist computer and
lay control of medical practice.
2. A strong AAPS State Chapter can help
bring
out
the truth to the public
and
re
strain the actions
of
Blue Shield and the poli
ticians to whom they appeal.
3. Both patients and physicians must quickly
assume
and
carry out
a philosophy of
don't
tread on me by thoroughly understanding
ourselves why political medicine
is bad
med
icine.
MISSOURI DOCTORS
REFUSE
TO
BE PUSHED
AROUND
Last Fall, a St. Louis group of ten doctors, in
cluding Drs. Komanetsky, Finkel and Jost, filed suit
for
an
injunction
against
the Missouri State Medical
Association which
had
arbitrarily
and
without author
ity organized and was
operating
the Health Care
Foundation of Missouri.
The suit
pointed
out
that:
• Automatically all members of MSMA we
made
participating members of the
HCF
without their approval or consent
• The
HCFM caused
them
damage
by:
-requiring
them to violate their phys
cians' oath by a compulsory inspectio
of their professional records causin
them to
betray
the trust of their patien
and to reveal confidential and priv
leged communications existing betwee
their patients and themselves"
-requiring
their "professional acts to b
reviewed by a Board consisting in
pa
of an unqualified lay
staff
- subjecting them to involuntary serv
tude
- appropriating
MSMA funds" ($5,000.00
for
the HCFM) in
excess of their au
thority."
Before the suit, President of the Missouri Stat
Medical Association,
Gerald
Miller, M.D., state
threateningly
"Missouri physicians will
have
no choic
in this
matter
However, although the suit is still pending, th
MSMA
has,
by
its actions,
acknowledged
it exceede
its authority. In
January
it sent
the
members
an ap
plication asking them to consent to
become
mem
bers. Now we
understand
only
about 25%
of
th
doctors in the State have signed away their right
by joining.
Congratulations. to the doctors of Missouri wh
refused to
be
pushed
around.
Those doctors
are
forming a
legal defense
fund to
head
off forthcom
ing ass·aults on their freedom.
TAX AMERICANS DIZZY
Tax his he·ad, Tax his hide,
Let
the
government officials ride.
Tax
his
house, Tax his lands,
Tax
the
blisters on his hands.
Tax
his
car,
and
Tax his
Gas,
Tax
the
roads
that
he must pass.
Tax the payroll, Tax
the sale,
Tax again his hard earned kale.
Tax his pipe, and Tax his smoke,
Teach him ~overnment
is
no joke.
Tax his golf clubs and
the
ball,
Tax his membership
dues
ancl all.
Tax
his
savings
and bank
account,
Tax his surplus of
any
amount.
Tax the
water,
Tax
the
air,
Tax
the
sunlight
if
you dare.
Tax the living, Tax the dead,
Tax the unborn 'ere they're fed.
Tax their coffins, Tax their shrouds,
Tax their souls beyond the clouds.
Tax them all - Tax them well,
Tax them to the
Gates
of Hell
Reprinted from
Retail Ad Costs Research, Owensboro,
Ky.
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NEW AAPS GROUP HOSPITAL MONEY PROGRAM
The
Charter
Enrollment Period
is
now in prog-
ress for the AAPS
Group
Hospital Money Program.
Members have the option
of
two plans which
are
designed to give cash when hospitalized a $500
per week
or
$250
per
week plan. This money is paid
directly
to
the member to
spend
as
he sees fit.
This plan requires no minimum enrollment in
order
to go into effect. Watch your mail
for
com
plete details.
SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN AND BUREAUCRATS
PLEASE NOTE
Robert J.
Moorhead,
M.D. of Mississippi, re
cently received a note from one of his patients which
read:
''This is just a note to
thank
you for the excel
lent care that you gave me while I was
in the
Hospital . . . For twenty-two years you have
been a wonderful Doctor, never failing to come
to us when
we needed
you,
and
this note
is
for
the
purpose
of telling you how much our family
appreciates
you.
Would
political medicine with bureaucrats har
assing doctors permit such a satisfactory patient
physician relationship to · continue?
CHAOS CONTINUES
AT
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL
The Medical Director of Cook County Hospital,
Chicago, resigned recently following threats that
300
other
salaried doctors would resign.
Clyde Phillips, M.D., also Chief of Staff, said:
"It.
is
unfortunate
that
these
moments of peril
and
strile only
tend to
overlook the most important com
ponei;it in the hospital - the patient-physician rela-
SALARIED
PHYSICIANS - BEWARE
The Internal Revenue Service ruled that five
physicians who devoted full time to a clinic, were
paid a
salary,
provided with private offices and
had
their names on the office register
and
stationery,
were not independnt contractors but were em
ployees of
the
clinic.
The clinic furnished all supplies and
equipment
used by the physicians and,
under
an
agreement
with the clinic,
the
physicians
were
not responsible
for any of the clinic's debts and acquired no share
in the ownership of the clinic. Therefore, the IRS
concluded that: "since the five associates agreed to
devote their entire time to the clinic, maintained
prescribed office hours, assumed no financial res
ponsibility
they
were not pursuing an
independ-
ent business
or
profession."
Despite
the
fact
that the
physicians performed
their jobs with little control or direction,
THE
CLINIC
NEVERTHELESS HAD THE RIGHT TO DIRECT AND
CONTROL THEM IF T SO DESIRED
the
IRS stated.
Citation:
IRS Rev. Rul.
79-629,
IRB
1970-50,
24
(MSSNY, November, 1971).
RESOLUTIONS
Resolutions to be acted upon by
the
Resolutions
Committee at the Interim session of the House of
Delegates in Chicago on April 20-22, must be sub
mitted in writing and received at AAPS Oak Brook
Headquarters not
later
than March 31, 1972.
AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS
The By-laws Committee is recommending a
change
in
the AAPS By-Laws
in the
wording of Arti·
cle 14,
State
and
Local Branches, Section 2,
State
Branches.
tionship." Sincerely,
P r o b I e m s at Cook County Hospital were ./"""')
solved ' more than a year ago when a politically ....... _ .
appointed commission established by the State Leg ~ -
islature took charge.
However, feuding and political in-fighting be
tween the staff, politicians, and the administration
at Cook County Hospital has reduced performance
to the lowest level in history. (See prior report "Chi
cago Political Medicine" - AAPS News Letter, June,
1970.)
The hospital
is
one of many examples of the
chaos and disastrous results of politically controlled
medicine. The
patient
always loses.
Thomas G. Dcrrity,
M.D.
President
Enclosures: "Acupuncture Old Chinese Treatment"
"Medicredit Hoax
Private Doctors Institute Program
Letter to AAPS Wives
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
2111 Enco Drive Suite N-515 Oak Brook Illinois 60521 31
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7911
Frank
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T H E V O I C E OR P R IV T E D O C T O R S
Private Doctors Institute
Index No.
April, 1972, Volume 26, No. 4
AAPS
Freedom Programs
AAPS Group Hospital Money Program
Private Doctor's Code
Mills-Kennedy Axis
Temporary Hait to Funding New HMO's by
HEW
PRIVATE DOCTORS INSTITUTE
April 20-22, 1972
Hotels Ambassador
Chicago,
Illinois
PLAN
TO
BE
IN
ATTENDANCE
An excellent program has been put together
speakers re ready - all we need is
YOU.
The Presidential Message
will
be, HMO's vs.
Ethical Medicine by Thomas G. Dorrity,
M.D.
An
inspirational address, The Price of Individ
ual Freedom by Congressman John Schmitz.
A World-wide View of Medicine
in
Art by
John R Schenken,
M.D.
''No Compromise With Socialism by Charles
Shuman.
How to Influence Public Policy nd Opinion
by T Dale Alford,
M.D.
What's Happening in Washington by Frank
K Woolley.
Plus -
Seminars on State Chapters
Public Education Campaign
Workshops
for
Speakers Bureaus,
Public
Relations nd
Legislative Chairmen
Resolutions
Amendment to
By-Laws
Program Events for the Wives
DON'T
MISS
THIS IMPORT
ANT
MEETING
AAPS FREEDOM
PROGRAMS
AAPS inaugurated the Freedom Programs in
October, 1949 to embark upon a program of edu
cation in freedom for physicians of America nd for
their fellow citizens.
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Since that time,
the Programs
were expanded
and became
the
primary
source
of
financing
the
sending of pertinent information to
dues-free
mem
bers
- interns, residents, and medical students.
Charles
W. Johnson,
M.D.
(San
Antonio, Texas)
is Chairman of the Committee
for
the
Education
of
Medical
Students,
Interns
and
Residents. We
cannot
say enough about the remarkable headway this
Committee has made under his capable leadership.
We ask that
you show
your appreciation by
sending
in a check in as large an
amount
as
your
conscience
dictates.
A
card
and
envelope are
en
closed
for your convenience. Please
do
not hesitate
write
that
check now
It is
income
tax
deductible
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ENROLLMENT
-
AAPS GROUP HOSPITAL MONEY PROGRAM
The newly
launched
hospital
insurance plan
for
AAPS
members has produced
promising results. The
increasing number of
AAPS
participants has been
encouraging, and more are
expected
to apply
before
the end
of
the Charter Enrollment Period.
Applicants
will receive CASH for each day
when hospitalized
500
or
250
per
week,
depending on which
plan is chosen. Acceptance is
guaranteed
regardless
of
past or current health conditions if members en
roll
before the
deadline, May
21,
1972.
PRIVATE DOCTOR'S CODE
Your
patients
are
the
most valuable
asset you
have in saving the practice
of
private medicine. They
would
lose much
if you were
forced into the
practice
of medicine as directed by labor politicians and
government bureaucrats. A unique method
of en
gaging your patients in conversation on the question
of nationalized medicine is
to
display in your ex
amining
room
the
Private Doctor's Code wall plaque,
now
available.
A
powerful message, beautifully pre
sented on walnut
which
clearly
indicates
your op
position to government interference with your prac
tice
of
medicine.
If the
200,000
private practicing physicians
would
make it clear
to the
over
four
million patients
they see each doy why political medicine is bad
medicine,
the
politicians
would not plunge
on
down
the dark road to government dictation and
control.
You can help in this
struggle by talking to your
own
patients.
PATIENT
LEAFLET SERIES
The
education leaflets for patients,
which
we
mentioned
in the special Information Bulletin on
April
4,
1972, can help
re-enforce
this effort.
MILLS KENNEDY AXIS
The third week
of
April, Senator
Edward
M
Kennedy
(D., Mass.) goes to Little Rock, Arkansas
to speak at
a
National Conference
of Christians and
Jews' appreciation
dinner
for Representative Wilbur
Mills (D., Ark.). This comes
at
a time
when
Mills
is
letting it be known that
he would
just as soon be
Vice President and
when Kennedy
is being
mentioned
with increasing frequency as the man the Democrats
may wind up nominating for the Presidency. Ken
nedy
and Mills
have
a dialogue
going
on about
National
Health Insurance. The
health
policy im
plications of a Kennedy-Mills
alliance
are ominous.
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TEMPORARY HALT TO FUNDING NEW HMO S
BY HEW
There is evidence
that
AAPS resistance
HMO s is being supported
by
other segments
of
o
ganized medicine.
Sincerely,
Thomas G. Dorrity, M.D
President
New
money for HMO s
has
temporarily
been
shut off by
HEW. HEW
officials emphasize
that
there
is no change
in
Nixon Administration policy. Chair
man
P.aul
Rogers (D., Fla.), of the House Health Sub
committee, plans to begin hearings
on
HMO bills
the week of April 10th. Kennedy
will open
hearings
after the ITT-Richard Kleindienst issue
has been
dis
posed of. HEW s request for additional appropria
tions for HMO s
have been
rejected
by
both the
House
and
Senate Appropriations Committees.
Enclosures: AAPS Freedoms Programs Statement
Return Envelope
ASSOCIATION OF
AMERICAN
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
2111
Enco Drive. Suite N-515. Oak Brook Illinois 60521
312/325-7911
Frank K Woolley Executive Director
PRIVATE
DOCTOR S
CODE
(Wall
Plaque Order
Form)
I t
is made
of
walnut
hardwood grain
finish base,
and a
clear plast ic face that
permanently preserves i t Dimensions are
11-1/4
x
13-3/4
x 3/8 thick.
Please send me a PRIVATE DOCTOR S
ODE wall
plaque,
for
$13.50.
Check
enclosed
Bil l
me
NAME
ADDRESS
CITI, STATE ZIP
Tear
off
and
return
to:
Association
of American
Physicians
and Surgeons,
Inc.
2111 Enco Drive, Oak Brook, I l l inois 60521
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PRIVATE DOCTOR S CODE
of the
Association
of
American Physicians and Surgeons
s a private American physician I adhere to:
The ethics
of
the Physicians Oath
of
Hippocrates
to which medical doctors have bound themselves
for more than 2,000 years; and
D The principles of individual liberty to which America s
Founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
Accordingly
I
D
Cherish the free and unlimited exercise of
my
best
independent medical judgment solely for
my
patients.
D
Will
not
compromise my responsibility to
my
patients
by accepting money from or collaborating
with
government.
D
Guard against intrusions by government and others
into my
relationships with my patients.
D
Trust patients
to
meet their obligations.
D Remain dedicated to the principles that have made
medical care n America the most excellent in the world.
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS
AND
SURGEONS. INC
2111 Enco Drive. Suite
N 51
5. Oak Brook . Illinois 60521
312/325 791
BULLETIN
NO. 1-72
Thomas G. Dorrity. MD. Presiden
Frank K. Woolley. Executive Direct
Index No. 4
April 4, 1972
PRIVATE DOCTORS
INSTITUTE
April 20-22, 1972
An
AHEAD
OF THE TIMES
event
for
private practicing
physicians
•
• A
nationwide
public education campaign
will
be launched.
•
This
i s your
chance
to
help change
the
course
of history.
• Your
choice - - on and
upward
to
excel~
lence,
or into the darkness of govern~
ment medicine.
• Be part of an inspirational f i rs t
time" grand opening
ceremony.
• See
the unveiling
of a new
"Private
Doctors Code."
• A complete
program and
registration
form
i s enclosed.
See you
in
Chicago.
WALL
STREET JOURNAL D
Now. • • government
spends
45%
of the income of a l l Americans " That s the
almost unbelievable, but
true, AAPS
headline that appeared in the
Southwest
edition
of
The
Wall Street Journal,
March
21.
A
reprint of the 1/2 page ad created
and
sponsored by
AAPS
is enclosed. Additional reprints are av.siilable.
Dynamic
informative
ads
placed
in
the public
news
media
will
perform
a
heavy
role in the
1972-73
AAPS
campaign beamed
a t millions of Americans.
The exciting,
history-making
campaign wil l be
launched at
8:00
a.m., April
20
during the Private Doctors Inst i tute, Chicago.
PATIENT EDUCATION LEAFLETS
NOW
AVAILABLE
The a l l new "Facts for Patients"
leaflets
are now ready and the f i rs t set of
300
leaflets will
be mailed to
subscribing physicians within
10 days. A
typical
leaflet
and an order blank are enclosed.
Many hundreds of physicians will receive this exclusive AAPS
educational service.
Our
goal
is
to
involve thousands.
Please
promote this
valuable
l i terature
se~ies
by
showing
your
sample
leaflet to other
physicians.
I f
you are not already signed up,
complete
and return the enclosed order
blank.
Your service
will
begin promptly.
Sincerely,
~~ ~· .~
;
Enclosures:
Private
Doctors
Inst i tute
Program
Sample
leaflet
and order blank
The
Wall
Street
Journal
ad
Thomas G.
Dorrity,
M.D.
President
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THE VOICE
FO R
PRIV TE
D O C T O R S
Index No. 6
May,
1972,
Volume
26,
No.
5
N TIONWIDE EDUC TION L C MP IGN L UNCHED
J
,ov4 J
FOR
IMMEDIATE
ACTION
J
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HMO's VERSUS ETHICAL
MEDICINE
In his Presidential Address, Thomas Dorrity,
M.D.,
stressed
that
many doctors and most patients
do not understand that political medicine is bad
medicine. Dr. Dorrity said:
''The corporate contract practice of medicine
controlled by laymen is
the
gravest threat now
fO
the practice of private medicine. The health
maintenance organization concept is 'the most
recent and
saleable
name used for per capita
prepayment group practice schemes, which
is
corporate controct practice through politics.
Some state and local medical societies are fry
ing to
get in
on these schemes
as
medical foun
dations.
In
doing so, they are misleading the
profession and the public and helping deliver
control of medical practice into the hands of
labor union
leader
politicians.
The Republican Administration, as well as
leading Democratic candidates for President of
the United States,
are
for HMO's. This
is
no ac
cident. It is the produce of years of heavily
fi
nanced maneuvering by promoters of labor
union monopoly power - and compromise of
principle by unwise medical leaders. There is
only
one
key
fO
countering this threat to liberty
in the United States - understanding.
Much deceit is being used to mislead patients
and physicians. Also, bribery, disguised as sub
sidies, grants,
and
loans,
is
a major tool being
used to divide opposition and build the power
of HMO's: Our task is to rip away the mask of
deceit and expose enough of the bribery so that
people who have not studied their lesson may
have sufficient understanding of this struggle for
power to do something constructive about it.
In regard to
labor
union leaders trapping the doc
tors, Dr. Dorrity had this to say:
Attached to recent Congressional testimony of
the
AFL-CIO
were a number of resolutions. I
will merely give you a few quotes so
that
you
will understand where
labor
union leaders are
in relation to doctors and where compromise by
other medical organizations
is
leading
us:
(1)
RESOLVED:
All health services should be
provided whenever possible on
a direct service basis utilizing
full time salaried professionals.
(2) Another resolution attacks fee-for-service:
'A starting point must be the recognition
that the fee-for-service entrepreneurial sys
tem of delivering health services gives the
medical and dental professions the unilat
eral control over their incomes. Fee-for
service is a piece-rate system in which both
the prices of each piece and the number of
pieces of services
are
under control of the
provider'.
Enlightening those present on the AMA position, Dr.
Dorrity said: labor leaders h~ve used AMA to man
euver themselves into a dominant position. Continu
ing, he said:
''AMA's failure to cope with professional politi
cians is typical of failures of general umbrella
medical associations elsewhere throughout the
world. The record is clear for all to see that in
country after country where politicalized medi
cine has been imposed, the professional politi
cians have outmaneuvered the general medical
associations.
Doctor Russell Roth, speaker of the House of
Delegates of the AMA, speaking
in
New Or
leans in October, 1971 made it clear
that
he
and other current leaders have abandoned prin
ciple and intend to compromise with the labor
union politicians and take what crumbs they
can get. He said:
'The official position of the Association [AMA]
has been to more
or
less accept the widespread
statement that we have come in this country to
the point where the question
is
not whether
there shall be some form of national insurance,
but what this form shall be
''He admits: 'The tax credit approach rthe basis
of Medicredit], probably does not have great
viability
in
the House Ways
and
Means Com
mittee or in Congress. . .'
Then, he goes on to say clearly that the com
promise
is
for money. ' If you
are
talking
about a Federal bill which involves the expendi
tures of billions of Federal dollars, it is totally
unrealistic to think that somehow or another
this could be administered
apart
from the Fed
eral Government.'
He also said. ' Right now
we
know
that
the
Medicredit Bill stands no chance of being adopt
ed. •
•
AAPS Director, Patrick McDonough, M.D., exposed
the
AMA
Medicredit compromise
in
the Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania Medical Society Bulletin (See
March News Letter - Medicredit - A Trojan Horse?'')
In conclusion, Dr. Dorrity said:
Freedom has never been either cheap or easy
to keep. Tragically, there have always been those
so asleep and so ignorant
that
they have been
willing to subject themselves to dictation
and
control. I thank God that the members of this
Association are not cut off of that bolt of cloth.
The AAPS
is
dedicated to saving the ethical pri
vate practice of medicine.
It
can be done - it
must be done, but the hour
is
late . . . The
time to start is now. I wish you all success and
Godspeed
in
this noble undertaking.
Dr. Dorrity's speech will be sent to all members.
THE PRICE OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
Thursday evening was planned as an evening of
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Charles
B
Shuman, Former President, Amer·
ican Farm Bureau Federation, Mrs. Shuman,
Dr and
Mrs. Dorrity
and
Mrs. Maurice
W.
Peterson,
at
Friday Evening Banquet.
Paul
W.
Leithart, M.D.,
National Member·
ship Chairman,
along
with Drs. Maurice
W.
Peterson, Immediate Past President, T G.
Dorrity,
and Frank Rogers, AAPS Director.
A few
of the many
interesting
pictures
of
activities
at the
PRIVATE DOCTORS
INSTITUTE
APRIL 20-22, 1972.
Congressman Schmitz with Robert
5. Jaggard M.D., President-Elect
of
AAPS.
J. R Schenken, M.D., who
presented
his A Worldwide View
of
Medi
cine in Art ; The
Honorable
John G. Schmitz,, who
spoke
on ''The
Price
of
Individual Freedom ; Robert
J
Moorhead M.D., Director of
AAPS, and Thomas G. Dorrity, M.D., President
of
AAPS.
Dr Dorrity
awarding
Mal Rumph,
M.D., AAPS Director, with a Private
Doctor's
Code plaque
in recogni
tion
of
his
years
of
service to
the
Association.
Congressman Schmitz with Albert
G.
J.
Cullum, M.D.,
of
Middlesboro,
Kentucky.
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Donald Quinlan, M.D., AAPS Director, who
was presented with
three
awards receiving
a plaque from
Dr
Dorrity.
Congressman Schmitz with Maurice W. Pet-
erson, M.D., "\mediate Past President of
AAPS.
T
Dale Alford, M.D., Former Congressman
from Arkansas who presented a view of the
profession from inside Congress.
Congressman Schmitz with Dwight Mater,
M.D., from Knoxville, Iowa.
Congressman Schmitz. with Frank
K
Wool-
ley, Executive Director of AAPS.
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relaxation mixed with
an
informative address by The
Honorable John G. Schmitz
(R.,
Calif.).
This gala
evening was held
at
the LaTour Restaurant,
4
floors
above
the Lake Michigan shore. At a reception,
members
had an
opportunity fo personally meet Mr.
Schmitz
and
have
their picture
taken
with him.
The California lawmaker serves on a Subcom
mittee of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee
that is
currently considering legislation pro
moting tax-supported Health Maintenance
Organiza-
tions. Mr. Schmitz said:
''The Secretary of Health, Education,
and
Wel
fare
told our Subcommittee
that
the goal
of this
legislation
is
to make HMO's
available
to all
Americans My own conviction
is that
feder
ally subsidized HMO's
is
the vehicle to force full
socialized medicine upon us.
We are
rapidly
approaching
the
final
battle against
govern
ment-controlled medical practice
in
the United
States.
NO
COMPROMISE
WITH SOCIALISM
The
past
president of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, Charles
B.
Shuman, on the second
day
(April 21st) of the national physicians' meeting said:
Federal
management
of medical
care
will
be
a
failure just
as
is the
costly
and
wasteful govern
ment farm program.
Mr. Shuman, a farmer from Sullivan, Illinois,
called U. S. medical and hospital care:
Of
better quality and more readily available
than
in
any
other nation because it has largely
remained a service of the free market,
rather
than
being government
managed.
Socialism can only function successfully under
a dictatorship designed to prevent comparison
of the results
obtained
with the free market.
In-
creasingly, the issue
in
America is. freedom .
freedom to risk, freedom to excel, freedom to
make mistakes, freedom to farm, freedom to
select one's own doctor. Compromise on the
issue of government
management
of medicine
or
of farming
is the road
to
defeat and
to fur
ther losses
in
the freedom of
each
citizen to
choose.
Concisely,
and
emphatically, he concluded:
'When
you compromise
the
issue dies.
WASHINGTON
REPORT
Mr.
Frank
K.
Woolley, Executive Director of
the
Association, reported on government activities
in
Washington. He described the Washington scene in
a few words:
An
auction, deceit, confusion,
and
spending.
An
auction - medical freedom
is
being auctioned
off by Presidential
candidates
through the varied
proposals to institute nationalized medicine
in
this
country. This is being given a general assist through
propaganda
in the news media, medical press,
and
on the radio
and TV.
Deceit
and
spending -
We
are
witnessing
da
gerous promises to non-producers for their vot
The plunder to
pay
off those political promis
is not
created by
political magic, but must
forcefully
taken
from producers of goods
an
services.
Mr. Woolley continued:
AAPS testified strongly
against
increasing pu
lic spending
to
nationalize medicine. We ho
pointed
out that
Federal spending, when
add
to state and
local government spending, no
forceably takes
away
from
the
citizens of th
country 45 of all of their income. Thus
the bureaucrats are taking 45 of
what
ever
body
earns. Accordingly, you
are
being forc
to
pay
government, directly through taxes,
indirectly, through inflation, 2-% days wo
each
week of a normal week. The politicians t
to hide these facts.
Confusion - Despite the wishes of the social
ers,
the
legislative
and
political situation
quite confused.
In
this terrible confusion,
people need
somethi
to hold on to.
In
all of this confusion
we
must gui
by the stars. AAPS
is
the
one
org·anization that
guiding by
the
stars without confusion
and
witho
sinking into the
degrading
position of trying to com
promise with evil.
AAPS is an
organization of indivi
uals devoted to principle; with
unshakeable
faith
what made
America
great.
AAPS does not intend
abandon
its principles in a foolish effort to
' 'go
alo
with
the
crowd - to conform to new ideas.
Mr. Woolley cited
an
example of how poli
cians
try to
soften up their constituents
by
quoti
Mr.
Humphrey:
While conversing with Hubert,
I conceded
th
it was quite a sight to behold to
see
how
scrambled
around
to
get
favors from the b
reaucrats for Republican constituents from
Mi
nesota. Particularly, when they came to him f
help . . .
When
I said this to him, Homphr
grinned
and
replied:
'Well, I may not make Democrats out of
them, but I sure file their teeth.'
Obviously,
we
cannot
allow Humphrey
or an
other politician to file
our
teeth. We
have g
to file theirs,
and
we
can do
it
by
having the
constituents back home know the truth.
We
ca
file their teeth and keep them from destroyin
the practice of private medicine in the Unit
States.
A
WORLDWIDE
VIEW OF MEDICINE
IN ART
One
of the highlights of the Private Doctors I
stitute was a slide visual presentation on Frid
morning by John
R.
Schenken, M.D.
(Omaha,
N
braska).
Dr.
Schenken uniquely
and adeptly
not on
captured
the
audience
with
the
beauty
and
instru
tive portions of his presentation, but
managed
to r
lax his
audience
with his dignity
and
quiet humor.
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T. DALE
ALFORD, M.D.
AAPS member, T. Dale Alford,
M.D.
(Little
Rock,
Arkansas), a former Congressman spoke on ways
and
means by which physicians can
shape
public
policy
and
opinion.
COMMITIEE REPORTS
Committee Chairmen reporting at this session
were: Legislative - Robert J. Moorhead,
M.D.
(Yazoo
City, Mississippi); Membership - Paul W. Leithart,
M.D. (Columbus, Ohio); Public Relations - Barney W.
Finkel, M.D. for W. M. Komanetsky,
M.D.
(St. Louis,
Missouri); Medical Economics - R. L Campbell,
M.D.
for Frank
A.
Rogers, M.D.;
and
SIRM 'Students, In
terns, Residents
and
Military), Charles W. Johnson,
M.D.
(San Antonio, Texas).
RESOLUTIONS
Although 13 resolutions were presented, nine
were
accepted
for information only
and
the follow
ing four were adopted: Financing of
an
immediate
and
long-term educational program; Health
care
Negotiable
Se r vi c es ; Opposition to
HR-718,2
{PSRO) and
Rejection
of
Average
length of
Stay
Program.
HOW TO ORGANIZE
At Seminars for
Chapter
Officers, detailed in
structions were
presented
to illustrate a step-by-step
approach on how to proceed.
Four new action kits were distributed to Com
ittee Chairmen including: Membership Recruitment,
Speakers Bureau, Press Relations,
and
Legislative.
Members of the AAPS Board met with representatives
of
each state
to establish plans for organization uf
Chapters
and
action programming. Active State and
Local Chapters held
separate
planning caucuses.
NEW
OFFICERS
It is the
duty of the
Delegates to nominate a
slate of Officers
at
the April session, to
be
voted on
by the Assembly at the October Meeting. The follow
ing were nominated by
the
Delegates: President -
Robert S.
Jaggard,
M.D.; President-Elect - Patrick J.
McDonough, M.D.; Secretary - Marie Stanbery, M.D.;
Treasurer - E. E. Anthony, M.D.,
and
Speaker -
R
L
the Board sessions, the Thursday seminar
and
at the
Banquet on Friday evening; Patrick J. McDonough,
M.D., Speaker, presided over all business sessions of
the House of Delegates; Robert S. Jaggard, M.D.,
President-Elect, presided
at
the President's Luncheon
on Thursday noon.
AMENDMENTS
The Delegates
approved
two Amendments:
One
on Section 2.
State
Branches
and
the other on Article
I
Members,
adding
a new Section E. Life Members.
Before they become
an offidal part of
the Associa
tion's By-Laws,
they
must
be
approved by
the
As
sembly at the October session. The two Amendments
will be
