Patient Care

In Ongoing CHIP Debate, Coverage Does Not Equal Care

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A bone of contention within the many current health care debates is the funding of the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). No one wants to see kids go without health care, but government health care for children is not the best answer, says Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org).

CCHF Comments on CMS Request for Information - Innovation Center New Direction

Charlie Gard Has Shown Us Our Future Under the Affordable Care Act

Facebook Live from DC with Dr. Kim Corba

Dr. Kim Corba is a Direct Primary Care Doctor in Pennsylvania talking with CCHF President Twila Brase about how her practice now has a greater benefit to patients without the interference of insurance companies.

Twila interviews Dr. Kimberly Jackson, MD

Interview on March 20, 2017 with Dr. Mark Lopatin, MD about third-party payment and why it's better for patients to pay the doctors

Five Third-Party Free Doctors

CCHF President Twila Brase with five third-party free doctors at the 2016 Direct Primary Care: Nuts and Bolts to 2.0 Conference sponsored by Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation and the Texas Medical Association sharing their fight for freedom.

Skyrocketing Drug Prices a Persistent Problem in Traditional Health Care

ST. PAUL, Minn.—The far-reaching and heated debate over the $600 EpiPen has created a national conversation about ridiculously high—and skyrocketing even higher—drug prices. And now two lawsuits have been filed.

Euthanasia Train Roars into California

Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) became legal in California last week. Life, a precious God-given gift, can now be legally snuffed out up and down the west coast with physician assistance. 

Health Care Exists Because of Patients

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Somewhere in the progression of government intrusion into the exam room, bureaucratic red tape in medicine, impersonal and expensive care, and the blatant stripping away of patient privacy, an important fact was forgotten.

Independent Doctors Under Attack

The Obama Administration wants solo practices to disappear. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a 962-page proposed rule that will hurt 87 percent of solo practices (89,383 clinicians).