There are a few bad apples who don't give a damn what the rules are and repeatedly find themselves before the BOD. This group has used the tactic of lawyering up and beating the rap in civil court. This is, no doubt, upsetting the board members who genuinely wanna do their job and pursue these bad actors. One of the reasons they feel they keep losing is rules language, particularly record keeping, that allows enough wiggle room for reasonable doubt and the perps to prevail. So, their solution was to significantly tighten up this language to the point of onerous absurdity. They wanna mandate that we record things like what brand, how much dental materials we used. They also want what type(s) of injection we used, who assisted us and their initials. We all record how many carpules of anesthetic we use and what type. I told an attorney pt. of mine the staff's initials rule and she said, "Wow, are you guys doing pelvic exams now?"
I doubt any of you are naive enough to believe this piling on will protect our patients or that it will have any impact on those who've already shown they simply don't care what the law is. What it will do is cause undue distraction from what we should be focused on (the pt. in our chair), waste time, increase costs and arm our ambulance chaser adversaries with even more ways to get us. Basically this is a case of the BOD attorneys losing in court to outside hired guns and the BOD punishing the 6,000 dentists who practice the right way and respect laws. They need to get better litigators, period. More laws have never prevented anything illegal, see Prohibition, homicides, rape, drug abuse and speeding. In the end, the HOD voted to oppose this language and do a rules challenge. But it was a very narrow vote and only made possible by requesting secret ballots. I was dismayed the most by the unbelievable number of my colleagues who exhibited such Stockholm Syndrome re: the BOD and walk on eggshells around them, as if the BOD is all knowing and infallible. Please don't misconstrue my point. I have the nothing but respect for the BOD, but they're only human and capable of getting an issue wrong. I believe this case is one of those times. This issue is far from over.
Now about that collapse. Look at our economy, the VA, the job market, our southern border and Iraq. Yes, it's one big SNAFU! The cost of everything from ins. premiums, food, gas, durable goods and tuition keeps rising. Even the universities are citing Obamacare as one of the reasons for an already ridiculously high tuition going even higher. Never mind the fact these kids are gonna live with mom & pop till they're 40. Anyone who shares the delusion of govt. run healthcare working need only look to the VA, it's a disgrace! Illegal aliens get better, faster medical care than our vets.
The part of the VA scandal that infuriates me the most is that the govt. claims it lacks the $ to properly care for our vets, but they have plenty to give out $ millions in bonuses to those "administrators" who were most adept at rationing care and cooking the books to cover it up. They also seem to find $ millions to pay out in lawsuit damages when they really screw up big. This pattern of rewarding those who destroy the lives and livelihoods of others is also seen in the IRS bonuses. As soon as Fido pukes up the IRS's homework, maybe we can find out even more. But if any who work in these bureaucracies speak out, they are targeted. The textbook definition of an anti-social attribute is to help those who harm others while hurting those who help others. That's exactly what our govt. agencies are doing. Needless to say, the constant in all of these issues is the fact these are govt. union employees who know they can't be fired. If the private sector votes to be unionized, so be it. That trend is going sharply the other way, we now have one fifth of the 35% union market share of private industry seen in the 1950s. It's enough to make you lose faith in Archie Bunker, Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton! If you wanna see a disgusting example of negligence and incompetence a la govt. style, ck. out this story.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/iteam-acton-vet-finally-gets-va-doctors-appointment-2-years-after-he-died/2/
I won't deal with the Middle East for too long. When you have factions who hate each other since the year 700 A.D., populations whose greatest allegiance is to their radical Muslim sect over their nation, and a dysfunctional, corrupt military who will not fight, no amount of US $ or intervention can save them from themselves. Al Malicki failed to see that the Sunni component he humiliated and sent home would bear a grudge and rise up against him. These hatreds and the violence they produce make the Irish wars of the 1970s-80s look like Winnie the Pooh & Tigger. We made the mistake of believing these backward savages could respect and embrace civil discourse, democracy and respect for women. Then we further compounded the damage by giving them all this sophisticated, high power weaponry the ISIS thugs can now play with and rub our noses in on social media. Sending over military advisors won't fix that if the Iraqis were too weak from the get go, the damage is done. If anyone still thinks Obama has a clue on the Middle East, I give you the Bergdhal swap. Even a buffoon like Jimmy Carter would never trade 5 Al Qaeda all stars for 1 traitorous deserter whose dad's first words were to praise Allah on the WH lawn. Al Qaeda is LOL at Obama and at us for electing this gift that keeps on giving, twice.
Just when we thought the Dems were losing their voter base, they showed us they're still able to recruit more. Because that's all this "kids on the border crisis" is, aside from a hearty FU to Govs. Perry & Brewer by Obama for their open defiance to his tyranny. We're to believe these grade school and pre-kinder tots came from Honduras and Guatemala, traversed the entire Mexican mainland and made it to the exact Border Patrol choke points all by themselves? They not only don't run from La Migra, they run toward La Migra, it's like something from a George Lopez or Cheech & Chong movie. Let's not forget, there are other far more dangerous undesirables who also come across in these tidal waves. Just as Obama uses the Cloward & Piven tactic of overwhelming us with too many scandals to process, the same applies with hordes of hungry "refugees". We've got a Border Patrol too busy making PBJs and changing Huggies to protect our border. These are the anchor kids whose parents will eventually arrive and become Democrat voters. I've heard some Miami libs use the Pedro Pan analogy as an excuse. Cubans came across in the Pedro Pan flights but these were organized, rosters with names and finite numbers, as well as the faith based organizations who placed, housed and fed these kids. Some of our colleagues were Pedro Pan kids. To compare the 2 is apples to oranges- ok, mangoes to avocadoes. Today, the Messiah came out talking tough (always makes me LOL) and said he'll personally tell these nations those kids will be sent home, etc. Sounds great, most likely panicked calls from Dems who know they're gonna get killed in the Nov. elections by angry Americans who are fed up. I'll end with Missippi.
How big a joke is the GOP when they've spent more $ to defeat Tea Party candidates than Dems?!
What the Cochran regime did, aided by former MS Gov. Haley Barbour (who reminds me a lot of Boss Hogg from Dukes of Hazzard) is not only disgraceful, it's also illegal and should be prosecuted. To mobilize the black communities with envelopes containing $15 of "walking around $" and robo calls telling them McDaniel would keep them from voting and interfere with our first African American Pres. is something you'd expect to see in a parody film like Wag The Dog. They've already found over 1,000 illegal ballots from Dems who'd voted in the June 3 primary for the Dem candidate then voted for Cochran on June 24, that's verboten. This also shows the GOP is basically a worthless version of Dems Lite. All they want is for RINOs like Cochran to keep the pork coming to a state that's still 49th out of 50, despite decades of govt. $. This old coot should be put out to pasture and it's exactly why we need federal term limits. If these true Uncle Toms were so in love with Thad (as is the current spin) for all his generosity and help after Katrina, where were they on June 3? It wasn't until they were mobilized that they suddenly realized he was their new messiah and turned out 40-50% higher in the run off. This tactic will be repeated until the GOP closes all of its primaries to registered GOP voters, only. As for MS, if McDaniel doesn't get these votes tossed out, he can run as a write in Nov. and likely win. How poetic it would be, to use a page from the Lisa Murkowski playbook? I think the more voters see what Cochran did, the angrier they'll be. There's also the fact these bandwagon jumping black voters will not back him over their own party's candidate. I've posted photos of both corrupt Good Ol' Boys below, can you tell me which is which?
