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"Family physician Lou Sanner, 59, of Madison, said he had given out hundreds of notes."
Yahoo ^ | 2/20/2011 | ODD RICHMOND and JASON SMATHERS

Posted on 02/20/2011 12:15:02 AM PST by GreaterSwiss

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To: ArmstedFragg

Also if someone is experienced stress at a huge protest rally it is being at the rally that caused it.


21 posted on 02/20/2011 2:16:31 AM PST by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Well, then, the next time that I need a fraudulent excuse letter from a fraudulent doctor, guess that I know who to contact...

Wonder if he can give me some fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances while he’s at it...

/s


22 posted on 02/20/2011 3:09:28 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: GreaterSwiss
... the patient was assessed by a duly licensed physician... about time off of work...

Hopefully not for long.

23 posted on 02/20/2011 3:31:06 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: GreaterSwiss

Family physician Lou Sanner>>>>>>>

This lefty skunk is just another taxpayer supported leach. He is a professor at a Wisconsin state university. Does he have a family practice on the side? He might.


24 posted on 02/20/2011 3:35:41 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: GreaterSwiss
"Should Lou Sanner lose his license for doing fraud?"

Yes, and so should any other physician who participates.

In addition, Wisconsin (and every other state) should pass legislation saying that any legislator who deliberately absents himself/herself from a legislative session for political purposes should lose his/her office, and a replacement be immediately appointed by the governor.

25 posted on 02/20/2011 3:40:43 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: ResearchMonkey

I guess this solves the union health-care issues, ...it’s now FREE for unions. — Next lets talk about their retirement compensation.


26 posted on 02/20/2011 3:41:03 AM PST by ResearchMonkey (Holding Conservative Country in California.)
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To: ResearchMonkey

****I guess this solves the union health-care issues, ...it’s now FREE for unions.****

BINGO!

If Obamacare passes - all medical personnel will become Government employees. That alone should make ‘public sector unions’ illegal.


27 posted on 02/20/2011 3:48:07 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God 's redemption.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

suffering from stress - by whoms choice. the unionistas are making for the stress. the union is afraid that they will lose their lucrative incomes. because wait for it - union dues will become voluntary. thats right the state will no longer take the union dues out of the payroll, and the individual will have to make the payment of the union dues. This is the real issue that makes forth the union telling lies and stirring trouble and calling in the big guns like the Union Boss Trumika, and the unions call the fraud in chief Barack Hussein Obama


28 posted on 02/20/2011 4:32:17 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: GreaterSwiss

I honestly believe that the UW Madison Professors are utilizing Medical Students from the University of Wisconsin Madison Medical School. the professor pre signs the excuses and he/she utilizes many of the medical students to do the interviews (medical visit) and the students actual file out the forms.

Look at the ramifications of this tragedy. The medical doctors could lose their licenses and face fines and/or prison sentences. The medical students could put their own medical careers in jeopardy. UW Madison Medical school itself would have to be shut down - not enough teachers to teach the coursework and supervise students. the medical college also lose its funding from the state and possibly the federal government. I see one possibility Barack Hussein Obama has his fingerprint in all of this.

There needs to be an investigation into the entire involvement by the Obama Administration into this entire Union attempt to take over the Wisconsin State Government - there may be a lot of prison sentences.


29 posted on 02/20/2011 4:47:43 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: GreaterSwiss
The doc is an enabler. Nothing new in that. Sick days are widely abused; so is the disability system; so is SSI; so are all assistance programs of any nature. This is just human nature and is inevitable; put out a pot of money, and people will get to work figuring out how to game the system.

The inescapable issue is how to police the programs. I will use an example that is probably heretical around here: I am a fan of the food stamp program. (Yes, I know we're now supposed to call it SNAP, but ....) Food stamps are the very model of the fully vouchered assistance program. That's a good thing. If we ran nutritional assistance the way Obama wants to run healthcare, government would either own or comprehensively manage every farm, grocery store, restaurant, processing plant, equipment manufacturer, etc., and issue every citizen a fixed menu ration book. Instead, we give poor folks a voucher (aka a SNAP debit card) and send them to the grocery.

The terrible reputation that the program earned stemmed from massive failures of policing the boundaries. Food stamps were supposed to be used for food and a few other grocery store essentials. But that depended on supermarket checkout clerks playing cop. Most of them didn't, so food stamps became a scrip currency in many lower income communities.

In principle, the electronic debit cards to which the system has converted should solve that problem. One can always have a debate about what should and should not be eligible for purchase (e.g. domestic wines, yes; French imports,no .... /s, but you get the idea). Whatever the decision, however, the rules can be programmed into the stores' computers, so the clerks no longer are asked to be enforcers. And with food stamps no longer available as scrip currency, nobody can buy drugs, clothing, consumer electronic gadgetry, etc. with them, and the thugs are no longer raiding everybody's mailbox on the day the food stamps come.

That leaves the problem of policing eligibility for participation. This problem is shared by ALL means-tested assistance programs; people lie about their incomes to get free government money. I can easily devise much more draconian enforcement regimes, but the issue rapidly becomes how many investigators and clerks you want to hire to catch the scammers. That turns out not to be an easy question. How many $60,000 a year enforcers do want to pay to catch $25 a month scammers?

With regard to this Wisconsin doc: one traditional response to sick leave abuse is to require sick employees to see a company physician. That leads to other problems and is probably more trouble than it is worth in normal circumstances. In this case, the state employees are cheating in more-or-less public view, and the response should be political. I'd up the ante in response to this kind of tactic. The governor and legislature should just announce, for starters, that the schools will be vouchered and Wisconsin will move to full school choice if the unions don't straighten up right now.

30 posted on 02/20/2011 5:12:56 AM PST by sphinx
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His medical ethics are as deformed as his ears.


31 posted on 02/20/2011 5:14:40 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Bellflower

The parents should demand proof that a stressed teacher is safe to be around children who can not defend themselves from an attack.


32 posted on 02/20/2011 5:16:34 AM PST by healy61
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To: GreaterSwiss
This made Yahoo news? Eeeeegggggssscellent.

Come on AP, your turn.

33 posted on 02/20/2011 5:17:50 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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This lefty skunk is just another taxpayer supported leach. He is a professor at a Wisconsin state university.

Shocking. Truly shocking...


34 posted on 02/20/2011 5:21:24 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: GreaterSwiss

The man is guilty of fraud. He should be drug through the legal process till he is broke and his wife leaves him


35 posted on 02/20/2011 5:21:39 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Tempest

If he get paid for a doctors visit it is fraud on his part.


36 posted on 02/20/2011 5:22:26 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Tempest
I'm guessing that it's not actually fraud since the doctor isn't gaining anything out of his services. He's merely providing a note that states that he saw the patient, as he mentions he doesn’t attempt to establish a diagnosis. This would be like normal time of for a doctors visit for a check up even if you weren't actually sick.

Then he is an accessory to fraud.
37 posted on 02/20/2011 5:26:44 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Tempest

From what I have been told, if a doctor accepts Medicaid patients, he or she cannot see non-Medicaid patients for less than what is paid by the program. These “Doctors” are trying to say they have provided legitimate medical consultation.....for free?


38 posted on 02/20/2011 5:29:57 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (My State Senator fled to Illinois and all I got was a lousy union protest.)
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To: ResearchMonkey
I guess this solves the union health-care issues, ...it’s now FREE for unions.

Excellent way of throwing this back in their faces. The Goonions have just demonstrated publicly that they don't need any health care coverage paid for by the state. When a union thug needs to see a doctor the doctors will line up and see them, no charge. There are even people with bull horns walking the streets directing the union thugs to the free doctors. Problem solved. Eliminate all state provided health care for all unionized state employees. That should save the state millions.

39 posted on 02/20/2011 5:30:21 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Probably lots of laws on the books (put there by big Gov Liberals) that puts all kinds of requirements on docs and their facilities that makes what they are doing illegal. Any WI lawyers able to look into this?


40 posted on 02/20/2011 5:33:15 AM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
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