The cat is already out of the bag.
Kim Ruhl
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Title:
The cat is already out of the bag.
Creator:
Kim Ruhl
Date:
9/18/2002
Text:
I find the entire subject of wanting to stop the government from obtaining what is rightfully theirs, (discounted services in the form of competitive bidding) laughable. People in this field want to have their cake and eat it too. They want competitive bidding when it means they are the exclusive beneficiary to the contract. They don't want competitive bidding when their competitor becomes the exclusive contract beneficiary.
If you as an owner, manager, or other individual responsible for setting and negotiating prices are complaining about the current state of affairs ask yourself this simple question. Have I been routinely discounting below Medicare prices in order to obtain more business or exclusive business? If the answer is yes look in the mirror because the person staring back is in part responsible for this situation. Where or how do you think congress got the idea that our industry is over charging for services rendered?
For those of you who have resisted this type of discounting (Is there anybody left out there?) guilt by association is sadly your lot.
My opinion: This field needs a purge from the hypocrites who say one thing but do something else. Discounting below Medicare prices is nothing more and nothing less than placing profits over people in order to gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Greed is what it has always been and you need to look no further than Enron, World Com, Anderson and etc. to see the sad epithet that this type of rationalizing produces. Bottom line if your hands are clean, they are clean, if they aren't blame yourself, and quit your whining. Just remember this, the cat is already out of the bag.
Kim L. Ruhl C.P.O.
If you as an owner, manager, or other individual responsible for setting and negotiating prices are complaining about the current state of affairs ask yourself this simple question. Have I been routinely discounting below Medicare prices in order to obtain more business or exclusive business? If the answer is yes look in the mirror because the person staring back is in part responsible for this situation. Where or how do you think congress got the idea that our industry is over charging for services rendered?
For those of you who have resisted this type of discounting (Is there anybody left out there?) guilt by association is sadly your lot.
My opinion: This field needs a purge from the hypocrites who say one thing but do something else. Discounting below Medicare prices is nothing more and nothing less than placing profits over people in order to gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Greed is what it has always been and you need to look no further than Enron, World Com, Anderson and etc. to see the sad epithet that this type of rationalizing produces. Bottom line if your hands are clean, they are clean, if they aren't blame yourself, and quit your whining. Just remember this, the cat is already out of the bag.
Kim L. Ruhl C.P.O.
Citation
Kim Ruhl, “The cat is already out of the bag.,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/219728.
