"Increasingly, physicians face imprisonment for
carelessness and application of ambiguous legal rules-
these assertions and promises notwithstanding. Private
physicians are being sought as scapegoats for the
growing financial problems inherent in the Medicare
and Medicaid systems." Andrew Schlafly, AAPS General
Counsel
Medical Malaise
Once upon a time,
Once upon a time, doctors who made it through
those eight grueling years of medical training
were rewarded with a professional life that
virtually guaranteed affluence, independence,
and nothing short of reverence from their
health-care colleagues and the culture at large.
Are doctors that bad?
Criminals, frauds? Hear their voices..
Congress made it a crime to make a mistake,
criminalizing clerical billing errors made by
Medicare providers. As a result, many capable
and honest doctors have been victimized by
government prosecutors. Yes, criminals have been
caught, but at least as many honest doctors have
been driven from practice, forced into early
retirement, financially ruined or even jailed
because of "overzealous" prosecution
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Once upon a time, doctors who made it through
those eight grueling years of medical training
were rewarded with a professional life that
virtually guaranteed affluence, independence,
and nothing short of reverence from their
health-care colleagues and the culture at large.
