Alieta Eck, MD

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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. In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a non-government free clinic for the poor and uninsured that currently care for about 300 patients per month utilizing the donated services of volunteer physicians and nurses. Dr. Eck was the 2012 President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and serves on the board of Christian Care Medi-Share, a faith based medical cost sharing ministry. In 2014 she was the Republican nominee for the US Congress in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

Physicians Sue over Monopolistic “Maintenance of Certification” (MOC®)

Dr. Alieta Eck: Why should the self-selected experts of the American Board of Medical Specialties have the sole authority to “certify” physician competence and deny patients access to their chosen doctor?

Caution: American Medical Association Ponders Calling Health Care a Right

Alieta Eck, MD: Unlike the unalienable rights listed in our Declaration of Independence, a right to “health care” is not self-evident.