Re: Qualified Providers
Bernard Hewey
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Collection
Title:
Re: Qualified Providers
Creator:
Bernard Hewey
Date:
1/7/2001
Text:
Bill,
I have never attended an AOPA Policy Forum but I have been deeply involved in our efforts to obtain licensure in Washington State since 1996. Our efforts paid off in the Orthotic Prosthetic Licensing Act of 1998. I had first-hand experience in countering the efforts of other professions to dilute the standards we considered to be vital if our profession were to be considered legitimate. We were successful in requiring baseline educational standards.
I'm sure that the efforts on the national level are probably sincere and maybe even well-meaning. But to validate the legitimacy of professions that lack all but a very basic overview of a well-established set of skills is appalling!
The AOPA Board may be slapping themselves on the back because of the fee increases but my take on that is that more MC funds will go to other sources, not the P&O PROFESSIONAL. A recent posting presented a parable of sorts in describing the situation as one of rats in a silo.Well I believe a clearer rendition of this story has the larger and more vociferous group of rats being given the keys to the trains that transport the grain to the silos. What spills from those cars at the end of the line is barely suitable to make even a little bit of bread.
Bernard Hewey ----- Original Message -----
From: <Email Address Redacted>
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [OANDP-L] Qualified Providers
Dear Bernard, I have gone to many AOPA Policy Forums and have never
considered my presence there to be any less than my support for our
professions, yours and mine. Granted our presence is helpful to our paid
staff but if this support benefits us where is the harm? Do you think for a
minute that the other professions out there do not encourage grass roots
support to gain legislative assistance for their causes? Come see, and ask
your questions, and you will be educated. You will also be in the right place
to do something with your new found education to directly help yourself and
your colleges. It is a small price to help pay for future improvements to O
and P. Believe me, I was a very skeptical individual prior to getting
involved and I have since learned a wealth of first hand facts that have
been extremely beneficial, to me as a practitioner and as an advocate for O
and P.! Bill DeToro,CO
I have never attended an AOPA Policy Forum but I have been deeply involved in our efforts to obtain licensure in Washington State since 1996. Our efforts paid off in the Orthotic Prosthetic Licensing Act of 1998. I had first-hand experience in countering the efforts of other professions to dilute the standards we considered to be vital if our profession were to be considered legitimate. We were successful in requiring baseline educational standards.
I'm sure that the efforts on the national level are probably sincere and maybe even well-meaning. But to validate the legitimacy of professions that lack all but a very basic overview of a well-established set of skills is appalling!
The AOPA Board may be slapping themselves on the back because of the fee increases but my take on that is that more MC funds will go to other sources, not the P&O PROFESSIONAL. A recent posting presented a parable of sorts in describing the situation as one of rats in a silo.Well I believe a clearer rendition of this story has the larger and more vociferous group of rats being given the keys to the trains that transport the grain to the silos. What spills from those cars at the end of the line is barely suitable to make even a little bit of bread.
Bernard Hewey ----- Original Message -----
From: <Email Address Redacted>
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [OANDP-L] Qualified Providers
Dear Bernard, I have gone to many AOPA Policy Forums and have never
considered my presence there to be any less than my support for our
professions, yours and mine. Granted our presence is helpful to our paid
staff but if this support benefits us where is the harm? Do you think for a
minute that the other professions out there do not encourage grass roots
support to gain legislative assistance for their causes? Come see, and ask
your questions, and you will be educated. You will also be in the right place
to do something with your new found education to directly help yourself and
your colleges. It is a small price to help pay for future improvements to O
and P. Believe me, I was a very skeptical individual prior to getting
involved and I have since learned a wealth of first hand facts that have
been extremely beneficial, to me as a practitioner and as an advocate for O
and P.! Bill DeToro,CO
Citation
Bernard Hewey, “Re: Qualified Providers,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215763.
