Re: Fw: License Law weakening-Stacking the Board

Re: Fw: License Law weakening-Stacking the Board

Tony Barr

9/17/2000

Well worth 2 cents and more Bob! Five of the seven board directors are
required to be O&P licensed professional members and only two are consumers.
Distinguishing business conflicts of the five professional members is
curcial to the effectiveness of the law.
Now that we have meaningful regulation in Florida, one would not want to
encourage the board's majority oversight position and ability to deny/
approve an applicants license to practise as authority to lessen the
qualifications of its licensees for the purpose of diluting qualification
guidelines or providing cheaper labor in the workplace, would we?

We all must support a board with no business agendas or possible intent of
lessening the impact of regulation on the industry!
Tony Barr

----- Original Message -----
From: < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: License Law weakening-Stacking the Board


> I am not a Hanger employee. But I have a question. How will anything
that
> is detrimental to the public benefit Hanger? I don't believe any group
> with its own agenda should control the Florida Board of Orthotists &
> Prosthetists whether they are organized independent companies
(practitioners)
> or part of a large company with multiple offices and many practitioners.
>
> More than 2 Cents worth.
>
> Bob Brown, Sr. CPO, FAAOP
>
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> In a message dated 9/16/00 10:05:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> <Email Address Redacted> writes:
>
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > > A well placed source in the Hanger organization reports there is a
> > > concerted effort being made to have two additional Hanger employees
> > > appointed to the Florida Board of Orthotists and Prosthetists. The
goal
> > > is to stack the Board enabling Hanger to rewrite the rules thereby
> > > weakening the license law. The names mentioned are Farraday and
> > > Keller. An effort should be made by the profession and the patients
of
> > > Florida to expose these tactics before they can be finalized. This
can
> > > include writing to the Governor and to the President of the Senate,
> > > informing them it is not in the interest of the disabled in Florida,
nor
> > > for the profession itself, to allow Hanger to control the Board for
its
> > > own purposes to the detriment of the public. I hope you will post
this
> > > ASAP and with everyone you know who may be able to help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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