[IP] more on Broadband needs a nonpartisan FCC
Begin forwarded message:
From: Robert Lee <robert.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 16, 2004 7:03:08 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] Broadband needs a nonpartisan FCC
That the FCC can constructively legislate TA96 into oblivion is
ludicrous.
This administration has no regulate/deregulate philosophical
underpinnings
at all. In one case they use regulation to get the desired monopolistic
effect and in another deregulation. You deregulate monopolies and you
regulate upstart competitors.
Example. Did you know that a doctor can say to the government that he
will
not accept Medicare payments, that the patients can file with Medicare
and
get what they can or not, as they wish, but even if the doctor takes
this
road the government says he is not allowed to charge more than $X
(which is
usually about 4% more than if he accepts Medicare). Thus Urologists
this
year face another year of 35% reduction in their fees, which of course
goes
to the insurance companies.
There is no precedent for this in American Law that I know of. In the
I do
not accept assignment form Medicare is a contract with a patient, not a
doctor. How on Earth does the US Government get off deciding what a
doctor
will charge to a patient willing to pay more than the Medicare payment
to
him, to a doctor who has decided not to deal with Medicare?
Doctors cannot meet to discuss fees. Insurance companies can and do
all the
time, as Paul Revere said, by land and by sea, and now by air.
There is no system that can withstand a defiling of its first
principles.
Robert Lee
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David Farber
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:34 AM
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Subject: [IP] Broadband needs a nonpartisan FCC
Begin forwarded message:
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 14, 2004 8:35:15 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Broadband needs a nonpartisan FCC
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Broadband needs a nonpartisan FCC
By Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1034-5364174.html>
Story last modified September 14, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT
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