Re: Ultrasound certification
From: Ari Gold (arig@getnet.com)
Thu May 14 09:50:03 1998
Right on BOB!
Ingrid Gold, CNM, MHSA
At 01:15 AM 5/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In message <355A3235.605A@pol.net> writes:
>> I'm sorry. What free market would that be? The one where third party
>> payers are immune from the ramifications of their practice of medicine,
>
>They do not practice medicine, as I think I demonstrated quite
definitively here
>a couple of weeks ago, by posting a typical state statute defining what
>constitutes the practice of medicine. However, if you have evidence that
what
>insurers do does, in fact, concstitute the practice of medicine, please post
>here the relevant state statute that allows this interpretation.
>
>> can fix prices with impunity,
>
>Are you alleging an illegal collusion between competitors on price? If so,
>please forward your information to your state attorney general for
prosecution.
>Making the allegation here doesn't get anytying done. (But maybe you just
like
>to whine, and aren't interested in getting anything done.)
>
>place outrageous limitations on
>> practitioners,
>
>So don't sign up with insurers that behave that way. Or get yourself
elected as
>one of the medical advisers.
>
> and tie up staff with precertifications for urine
>> pregnancy tests? The freedom that I have is to stop practicing
>> medicine, or just suck it up.
>
>No, you can sign up with other insurers, go to a cash-only basis, move to
>another area, etc.
>
> This is an interesting system we have,
>> but "free market" is a term which does not apply.
>
>I don't suppose there is any purely free market in this nation. But
there's no
>point in pretending that you have a gun to your head or have no choices
other
>than to stop practicing medicine, as you explicitly (and, obviously,
falsely)
>assert.
>
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>Bob Woolley
>St. Paul, Minnesota
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>"A civilization gets, by and large, the art that it deserves."
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> Robin Wood
> "Hitchcock's Films Revisited"
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