Joe,
You say that the folks at this other site really love us. How do they know about us??? Are they coming and reading the board here? Have you been passing on some of our more "interesting" posts to them? Just curious. I'm glad to know that some of what we have been knocking around here is reaching a somewhat larger audience. Really I would love to find a way to get much of this great banter out in front of the public at large so they can see for themselves just how tough things are for many of us, and just how much we care about them, their health and their privacy and rights.
And remember it's not just cutting payments based on data, it's really doing the same based on very questionable if not extemely bad data. The experimental model itself is very poor, no less the lack of any control or double blind to the picking and choosing of that data. Who is in control of picking and choosing the data and with what predisposed biases, with what agenda in mind. It is CHITT science and that in and of itself renders it meaningless. And therefore patient's access to treatment and provider reimbursement should not hing upon it. Under "normal" conditions such stuff would simply be laughed out of town. How come as these supposedly learnered docs are falling for this so easily? If a guy with a BA in psych can understand the flaws in the model why isn't the AMA and everybody else simply running these guys out on a rail???
Please let us know and keep up the good fight right back at ya.
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
Last edited by hockeyref; 11/05/2007 9:07 PM.
