Government Medicine Is Hazardous to Your Health (From the President‪)‬

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons was founded in 1943 specifically to fight against the government takeover of the practice of medicine. Since that time, the organization has had triumphs and losses, but has tirelessly supported free markets and patient-centered ethical medicine. Today we continue the battle, and to paraphrase Winston Churchill, we have fought them on the beaches, and now the enemy is in our own backyard. Why do we persevere? Because government medicine fails, and it fails spectacularly. Government healthcare wonks around the world and in America promise better quality, lower cost, and better access, but government medicine produces just the opposite. The same government that brought us the $600 toilet seat is now bringing us the $3 aspirin, and the $250 bone screw. Let us review the talking points and the facts.