Re: $10,000 fine for an honest coding error!

From: Douglas Krell (sfth@roadrunner.com)
Fri Jun 7 22:39:43 1996


I find it a little tough to believe that the objectionable provisions (which the WSJ article says constitutes a full 1/3 of the entire bill) were slipped into the good Senator's namesake legislation by a leader of the opposing party.

Although I'm not certain it matters who authored the most onerous parts of the bill or what their motivations were, it IS clear that the people in Washington have a free license to not only destroy our personal livelihoods but to set the profession of medicine back by decades.

If the WSJ article is correct, this is the kind of tactic we can expect to promote the "dumbing down" of medical practice in America...the only profession I can think of where the less you know, the better. The cheaper..the more desirable.

It's been a great privilege in the US to have medical knowledge that we could share with the world. Perhaps now our task should be to focus on fostering better ties with our colleagues worldwide so that we maintain a professional posture that can rise above any country's local political agenda

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Douglas Krell MD FACOG
sfth@roadrunner.com

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