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The administration says the investigation will focus on a "critical issue of public policy": the growing shortage of primary care physicians, including specialists in internal medicine and family medicine. It will also try to find out if doctors accept patients with private insurance while turning away those of government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates.

# 1, small practices may be moving in that direction. They can not afford not to. Other doctors will work for hospitals and large clinics instead of their own practices.  My own internist is with a large practice having its own lab, X-ray, and other diagnostic facilities.  They make up some of the difference in reimbursements on fees for those tests.  They also file with Medicare but require payment up front from the patient, so they don’t lose money on the Medicare reimbursement time delay.  So far they are still taking new Medicare patients.

This Orwellian assault on freedom should terrify you all!  In essence, the government lies to the physician, finds out if he/she makes rational economic decisions (i.e., showing a preference for accepting patients whose insurance coverage pays better), and amasses a secret data base that will be available to the higher ups at Health and Human Services who get to decide which physicians can practice.

Pretext phone calls are used by investigators in order to extract information from a person that otherwise would not be provided by that person.

The whole concept behind such pretext phone calls is the use of a “lie” of some form or shape that misleads the person being interviewed in order for the interviewer to obtain the desired information.

This technique is dishonest, at best, and its use can be rationalized when used against criminals or people who pose a threat to national security or society in general by the need to "lie" to protect others against an imminent or insidious danger to the country or the safety of persons or property.

However, it is certainly ethically improper technique when used against people involved in the traditional practice of their professions or businesses.

The fact that government officials are willing to commit such acts in their pursuit of the implementation of an unpopular law is a real cause for concern.

It raises the question of what other shady tactics could be done by an administration responsible for the continuation of its policy objectives.

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