wholesale sell-out

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The access "thing" is one of the big sell-outs of the profession.

The big managed care companies get the business by securing the large employment groups, but it pans out to be marginal business because of the access (referral) issue and then, by making their provider panel exclusionary, the profession is shut-out as a whole to large segments of the population.

What a deal!

In my opinion, it's little more than a wholesale sell-off of the profession.

And you know, the rocket scientists who devised this concept have basically gotten-off scott free. It was a legal bamboozling as far as I'm concerned. And it definitely strained constitution law.

Does everyone out there reading this email understand this mathmatical model? This is important because managed care was sold to us and to industry under an entirely different pretense: a pressed white jacket, "The wave of the future," Dr. Dallas talking about "mainstream," and so on.

I told the story recently of the Portland internist's stife in 1994 where the senior leadership to this day attributes the take-over as being the result of "market forces." Young internists remain baffled at what they view as a terrible leadership effort and a perpetual rationalization of the error.

But whether it's chiropractors or internists, I called it being duped. We were all duped because a very small minority of our local community decided that they were going to jump-in and play in this dangerous scheme to undermine their own collegues and their traditional economic structure.

I've said it since 1990: shame on them, shame on us.

But the ship can be righted. It's like drug or alcohol abuse... just say no.

If you participate, you're contributing to the problem.

That and an any willing provider bill should do the trick. But it's going to take some liberty loving, hard headed soldiers to get it through, because socialism has its grip on our country deeper than many of us may think or know.

And as we all know too well, health care has been a leading venue for the advancement of socialist interests.

It may be too late to right the course of physicians in commerce.

It's going to take more chiropractors getting together in a collective bargaining group to protect our rights and freedoms as physician's in business, otherwise industry will continue to flush us down the toilet because they could care less about us. Small, medium and large businesses want to maintain their bottom line, and if physicians and their profession need to be flushed in the process, so be it; even if it means incorporating a socialist model in this sector of business.

If we don't get together, the parasitic movement will continue the slow death of the profession. The rumor is that there are 35 students signed up for the entering class this year at WSCC. I wonder if "market forces" have come to bear on this trend.

scott s.