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Killgore Trout7/23/2009 3:10:17 pm PDT

It seems there’s a little more background here…
CNS, Fox Business silent on controversial views of medical group
June 26, 2009


In a June 26 article, CNSNews.com senior reporter/editor Pete Winn reported on the claims of “Dr. David McKalip of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,” a Florida neurosurgeon who claimed in a “unique virtual town meeting broadcast on the Internet” that including a public plan option in health care reform — which Winn described as “a mandatory government insurance option” — will result in “government takeover of medicine” with a goal to “ration care” that will cause doctors to “simply start migrating out of medicine.” But Winn did not note that AAPS is a conservative-leaning group that has promoted and endorsed controversial views on medicine and health, including urging doctors not to serve as Medicare providers and supporting a “moratorium on vaccine mandates.”

Similarly, in a June 11 interview of AAPS director of policy and public affairs Kathryn Serkes, Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney did not identify AAPS’ ideological leanings or note its views.

AAPS members passed a resolution in 2000 calling for a “moratorium on vaccine mandates.”

In 2001, the AAPS’ Medical Sentinel published a review by Orient of Christopher Ruddy’s book The Strange Death of Vincent Foster.

A May 2005 AAPS newsletter asserted that the case of Terri Schiavo “took on the trappings of the ‘final decision’ in the Roman Colosseum in the days of the gladiators,”