Owen, you are beating a dead horse. This fight started with the advent of managed care medicine. The first volley was in Seattle in 1992. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/sep/24/feds-drop-investigation-of-alternative-doctor/. I just happened to be there when the attack took place. I was also present at the end of that same week, Friday evening in Dallas, TX for an association meeting. I do not remember the name of the association, but was geared toward the recognition of Alternative Medicine, now called complementary medicine. However, I can tell you that these kinds of attacks against the government for intruding into the practice of medicine, starting in AZ, were adjudicated with the same arguments. And were defeated.
I particularly remember these were raised against IMEs and other 3rd party administrators who were backed by the State. Back then, just as now, they actually control the care of patients. They were Dx patients that they never examined.
Remember, The Medical Community is a potent force in Any State Capital. But also remember, the law is not logical. It is the law. And those who write the laws can and will interpret them any way they see fit for Party in Power.
And as you can readily observe by what is happening in the courts TODAY, they won't interfere with the other branches of government in a territorial dispute.
Just, wow. In a bad way. This is such bad policy development, never mind the legal issues you have raised.
Owen, you are beating a dead horse. This fight started with the advent of managed care medicine. The first volley was in Seattle in 1992. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/sep/24/feds-drop-investigation-of-alternative-doctor/. I just happened to be there when the attack took place. I was also present at the end of that same week, Friday evening in Dallas, TX for an association meeting. I do not remember the name of the association, but was geared toward the recognition of Alternative Medicine, now called complementary medicine. However, I can tell you that these kinds of attacks against the government for intruding into the practice of medicine, starting in AZ, were adjudicated with the same arguments. And were defeated.
I particularly remember these were raised against IMEs and other 3rd party administrators who were backed by the State. Back then, just as now, they actually control the care of patients. They were Dx patients that they never examined.
Remember, The Medical Community is a potent force in Any State Capital. But also remember, the law is not logical. It is the law. And those who write the laws can and will interpret them any way they see fit for Party in Power.
And as you can readily observe by what is happening in the courts TODAY, they won't interfere with the other branches of government in a territorial dispute.
Harvey Loomstein, PhD.