The
Enterprise exists to promote the BRT's Healthcare Policy Principles
(1/11/97), through a labyrinth of secret, "Enronesque,"
off-the-books partnerships. It also includes entities created by the
Enterprise to produce fraudulent schemes, studies and products.
These
racketeering schemes promote and defend Enterprise objectives, unjustly
enriching employers and health plans by reducing the value of patients'
health insurance benefits.
The
Enterprise has infiltrated federal and state patient rights law enforcement
agencies.
Bottom
Line: The fix is in!
The
Enterprise's stated mission is to reduce medical errors and promote
safe medicine. This representation is a pretext to minimize employer/MCO
liability and reduce medical costs by:
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Obstructing
the enforcement of patient rights laws, compromising the integrity
of the grievance/appeal processes and independent medical reviews. |
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Preparing
bogus Report Cards that award "Blue Ribbons" to HMOs
that promote same-day mastectomies, among other dangerous medical
practices and procedures. |
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Controlling
the "muscle and bone" of American medicine (i.e., what
happens in the exam room and the hospital). |
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Compelling
the adoption of unsafe, statistically-based medical practice guidelines
that "bet the odds" with individual patients' lives. |
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Destroying
trust, honest communication, and advocacy in the doctor-patient
relationship. |
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"Gagging"
patients by coercing them not to ask HMOs and HMO doctors how
their legal rights will be respected in all aspects of their healthcare. |
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Intimidating healthcare consultants, seeking business relationships
with the Enterprise, to obey its directives or be "blackballed"
from employment. |
Do
you expect uncompromising honesty and integrity from the same BRT
corporate CEOs that cheated their own stockholders?
These
repugnant practices are merely the tip of the iceberg. The Leapfrog
Group promotes "Leapfraud." Like General Motors (a founding
member of The Leapfrog Group) the Enterprise is "unsafe at any
speed."
HMO
HARDBALL's on-going investigations will expose much more.
