Articles by Alieta Eck

About Alieta Eck

DR. ALIETA ECK graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy and the St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr. John Eck, MD in Piscataway, NJ since 1988, affordablehealthinc.org. She has been involved in health care reform since residency and is convinced that the government is a poor provider of medical care.

Narcotics, Pain, and Medicaid in New Jersey

February 26, 2017 Alieta Eck 0

A new law has hit the people of New Jersey, the home of the toughest narcotics laws in the nation, in an effort to stem […]

Care vs. Coverage: A Better Solution

January 31, 2017 Alieta Eck 0

“This clinic saved my life.” So said the pleasant 50-something year old woman on the exam table. “I had dangerously high blood pressure and needed […]

Has Organized Crime Hijacked our Medical Delivery System?

July 11, 2015 Alieta Eck 2

By Alieta Eck, MD | The Save Jersey Blog What is organized crime? The dictionary defines it as a means of generating income through bribery and threats […]

What My Patient Taught Me about Medicaid

February 18, 2015 Alieta Eck 2

By Dr. Alieta Eck | The Save Jersey Blog Since ObamaCare’s newly insured are predominantly new Medicaid beneficiaries, it is important to be aware of […]

Dr. Eck: Assisted Suicide is “a violation of good medicine”

December 18, 2014 Alieta Eck 3

By Dr. Alieta Eck | The Save Jersey Blog I urge the NJ Senate to vote “No” on S382, the “Aid in Dying for the […]

Do We Really Need a Medicaid Program?

November 24, 2014 Alieta Eck 1

By Dr. Alieta Eck | The Save Jersey Blog In January, 2014, The Mercatus Center at George Mason University released a study that ranked New […]