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CNN Says Docs Writing Sick Notes for WI Protestors are Just ‘Helping Out’
The union-led protests against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to close the states budget deficit reached a new low as both Fox and CNN reported that doctors were writing sick notes for protesters who weren’t sick. While this behavior by the doctors is clearly unethical CNN wasn’t quite so sure.
CNN’s Casey Wian reported (emphasis added):
“Doctors are writing notes for some of those teachers so they won’t be fined, penalized by staying away from school, they’re helping out the teachers. There’s some concern that some of those doctors may be putting themselves in jeopardy because they are writing notes for teachers who obviously aren’t sick.”
They’re helping out alright. Helping the teachers to defraud the state by saying that they are sick when they are protesting at the state capitol. Any doctor doing this should have his or her license revoked, any teacher participating in this fraud should be fired.
CNN apparently wasn’t too concerned since anchor Martin Savage thought the whole thing was “very interesting” and that was it. So much for their so called unbiased reporting.
Fox also ran this interview with a Republican blogger who spoke to one of the doctors in Madison.
h/t Mediaite
Update: In response to the doctors writing the sick notes, Dr. Jane Orient executive director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) said:
“Writing a phony sickness excuse is fraud.”
“Physicians who sign their name to a false statement are compromising their professional integrity,” said Orient, although the Wisconsin union supporters seem to believe that the end justifies the means. The penalties can be very severe; for Medicare or Medicaid fraud, they include delicensure, draconian fines, and lengthy prison terms.
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6 Comments for CNN Says Docs Writing Sick Notes for WI Protestors are Just ‘Helping Out’
Union violence needs to be stopped union thugs and the bosses need to face RICO laws
I have been in ‘unions’ since ’66. I still believe in the general principles of unions,,but this is going too far. The Gov of Wisc. ha already stated that the unions will lose nothing,,,he just wants to have them ‘chip in’ for H/C & Pensions,,,& they refuse,,believing right or wrong that they will lose ‘Collective bargaining’. Maybe,,maybe not???
I for one can testify under oath that the DEMOCRATS LIE to unions ,,just to get elected,,,then throw them a bone,,then LIE to get RE-elected.
I stood on corners,handing out fliers saying “vote for Carey” & “dems are friends of Labor” LIES. Carey of NY established a 4 TIER system as payback for the unions helping him get elected,& RE-elected. Those schmucks
did NOT learn from being BURNED the 1st time. The TIER system stated that any one hired after June 1,1973 must work 25 yrs & be 55 yrs old to collect pensions. Tier 1 was just a regular 20/50 like others until Carey.
Tier 3 = 30/62,,,+ you must contribute 3% of your gross to your pension.
Tier 4 = same 25 years or so later,,a Repub.Gov.Pataki changed it to a level playing field at 25/55 for all,since most of tier 1 was gone
DeomCRAPS LIE to get what they want & do not care if YOUR state goes under,
they just move on somewhere else. Look at Reid’s last election,,how many of those folks at those rallys LIVE in Nevada?? think about it. Now in Wisc,,they are shipping them in from all over to tie up the Capitol bldg. If I were the Gov,,I’d give them just so much time,,,then ,,at night ,,close it down & move all of the Squatters OUT,,or arrest them,,including Hoffa,,Trumpka,,& thier Marxist thugs. Remember,,the cops & firefighters are EXEMPT from these contracts. They have their own.
My opinion only,,sorry for ramblin’,,crooked unions make me angry
I forgot one thought before (gettin’old) Did any one out there see on any of the ‘alphabet networks’ if they showed the people in Wisc. carrying any of the signs with the Governor dressed as Hitler w/stache & armbands??
I saw them on FOX & I was wondering if they were shown on any of the OBAMANETWORKS?????? You know the ones,,,just like the ones of BUSH 43,,
except NOW Wisc. is a RED state & the Libs are having Appoplexy over it.
Not to mention Hissy fits & Crying jags too.
TO Major Re; #4 I have only seen those pictures on FOX.
And where was Nancy Pelosi speaking out about the terrible behavior of some of those people ? She made up mean lies about The Tea Party people …saying they were carrying Swastikas, etc, and acted as if she was frightened to pieces ! But the violence and the foul language that some of these SEIU members are dislplaying has been ignored by the lame stream media, and over looked by Princess Pelosi , so it seems. It’s just all so sad ! By the way, I also with great interest your previous post. And yes, I agree that crooked unions also make me furious !
Those doctors should be fined, and the teachers should be fired, in my opinion. This nonesense has gone too far. Fine example they are all setting for the children ! And I don’t believe for one minute that they care anything about the children. I think they are totally selfish and only thinking of themselves. What on earth has this country come to ? Once again, it’s just all so sad and disturbing, as well.
I think that there should be a full investigation of the doctors and a police investigation thereafter. There are many thousands of honest doctors who would not stoop to this sort of thing and their interests should be upheld. If the authorities wink at this sort of thing soon it will be expected that doctors write sickness notices for anyone involved in a labor dispute. It is far too easy to get away with what is essentially “white collar crime”. We see it in insurance claims for car accidents and many other situations where money is involved. The usual defense is that “everyone is doing it”.
I believe that the government should ask the teachers to “own up” and accept a pay reduction for taking strike action. Perhaps that might get the others to “come clean” also. I am not saying that they have to “dob in” the doctors but I think that they should do the right thing by their employer and the taxpayer.