America faces a
doctor-shortage expected to reach 200,000 by 2020. For patient-safety, Congress should encourage doctors to stay
in practice. However:
1. Congress, by enacting the Health Care
Quality Improvement Act of 1986, denied doctors peer-review with due process;
2. The Supreme Court then refused
to hear Dr. SHALLER, a VA physician- whistleblower and victim of government-reprisal (2 veterans died needlessly for purely administrative/financial reasons at
the VA Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,
despite his timely warning. The VA paid both widows, Congress declared whistleblower-reprisal, but Congress did nothing to restore Dr.
Shaller's career: The "Land
of the Free" lost a triply-boarded
internist to Congressional "leadership.")
3. Medicare supports most hospitals: Most
hospitals have attorneys and other staff whose salaries are in part paid by
Medicare, and yet these tax-supported personnel are permitted to commit libel
under HCQIA in the name of 'Quality Improvement'! This scam is
conducted at taxpayers' expense, and it is costing
more than money: It is driving doctors out of practice by letting purveyors of libel label doctors as 'disruptive' without independent adjudication, the key element of due process as defined by the very same federal government that disburses Medicare reimbursement to the perpetrators of scam peer-review: "If you liked FEMA and TSA, then you will love our national health care plan."
Comes now the Executive Branch. Will President Obama direct
Medicare to set due-process peer-review as a Condition of Reimbursement? If not, how
quickly will college students choose law over medicine because they see that lawyers in the Legislative, Judicial,
and Executive Branches of government de facto practice medicine without a license and have all decided not
to protect physicians, or their patients, with the due process of law supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution?
Who would dare to become a doctor under such conditions?
