Last updated on:
9/18/2018 |
Author: ProCon.org
Jeffrey A. Singer, MD Biography
- Title:
- Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
- Position:
- Con to the question "Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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“Obamacare has harmed too many of my patients.
It has done so by disrupting the doctor-patient relationship and thereby worsening the quality of patients’ care. This is the heart and soul of medicine, as I have learned in in my 33 years as a practicing physician…
Obamacare’s assault on the doctor-patient relationship first manifested this time last year, when my patients began receiving cancellation letters indicating that their plans didn’t meet the law’s minimum requirements.”
“Why Doctors Give Obamacare a Failing Grade,” The Hill, Oct. 5, 2014
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
- Visiting Fellow, Goldwater Institute
- Adjunct Instructor, Program on Political History and Leadership, Arizona State University
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University
- Founder and Board Certified General Surgeon, Valley Surgical Clinics, 1985-present
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons
- Member, Advisory Board Council, Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University, 2014-2018
- Contributor, Arizona Medicine, a journal of the Arizona Medical Association, 1994-2016
- Former Treasurer, US Health Freedom Coalition
- Education:
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- Surgical Residency, Maricopa County Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
- MD, New York Medical College
- BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)
- Other:
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- Twitter: @dr4liberty
- Was involved in the creation and passage of the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act, which amended the Arizona Constitution in 2010
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