[net-gold] RICO Issues Can Be Cured With A Single Payer Medical System

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:17:02 -0400 (EDT)

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:28:01 -0000
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Subject: [Net-Gold] RICO Issues Can Be Cured With A Single Payer Medical System

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RICO Issues Can Be Cured
With A Single Payer Medical System

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Guest Blog by Jon Rhem

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Vermont's proposed single payer system would
seperate medical care from indemnity.
Vermont's single proposed single-payer system
would likely also provide a primary care
doctor to every resident of Vermont.
This would benefit injured workers because
employees would have more control over their
medical care and their employers and the
employers workers comp insurance companies
would have less control.

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In my practice, I often hear my clients who
don't have insurance going to doctor's
reccomended by their employers or insurance
companies. These are occupational doctors.
My client's with insurance are often steered
away from their family doctor's to occupational
medicine doctors. A leading blog written from
the perpective of workers comp insurers,
Workers Comp Insider states occupational
doctors have a "return to work" focus.
However in Colorado, Concentra, a nationwide
occupational health provider is being sued
under the Civil RICO statute for conspiring
with Wal-Mart to unlawfully limit the medical
care of Wal-Mart's employees. A "return to work
focus" is a eupheism for letting employers and
insuers do whatever they want in regards to the
medical care of their workers. Irregardless of
whether a court finds relationship between
Concentra and Wal-Mart lawful, it's undeniable
that employers and insurer's have a close
relationship with occupational medicine doctors.
By giving everyone a family doctor, the worker's
doctor, not the employer's doctor will direct
the workers medical payment.

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The insurance industry argues that letting family
doctor's control medical care will increase
indemnity costs because family doctors will try
to make their patient's happy by allowing them to
"vacation" while collecting indemnity. But if an
employee is able to work, many doctor's will tell
you that working is good for over all well-being.
The insurance industry also seems to assume that
all doctors are bleeing heart patient advocates.
This ignores the fact that doctors often share
the widespread perception that injured workers
are somehow "milking the system."

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While the insurance companies fear of how a single
payer system could change the workers' compensation
system is overblown, I believe that employers would
have less ability to wrongfully manipulate the care
of their injured workers under a single-payer system.

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Jon Rehm practices in Lincoln, Nebraska
(Rehm, Bennett & Moore, PC, LLO). He concentrates
his practice on representing injured workers and
their families. He hold a degree in journalism
from Northwestern University(B.S.) and a law
degree from Nebraska College of Law(J.D.).
Jon is a member of the Nebraska State Bar
Association, the Nebraska Association of Trial
Attorneys and the Workplace Injury Law Advocacy
Group.

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Complete Article with Links:

http://tinyurl.com/4w2xvep

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Jon L. Gelman LLC |
Attorney at Law |
http://www.gelmans.com
1700 State Route 23 Suite 120 |
Wayne NJ 07470-7537
o. 973 696-7900 |
direct f. 973-807-1811 |
mailto:
jon@xxxxxxxxxxx

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