The spider web of American justice
Posted on March 20, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
20 Mar 2007
This not-so heartbreaking story of the doctors Calimlim is not new. Been going on among Filipino doctors who flaunt their profession on money they make… the houses they own, the cars they drive… with complete disregard to common decency. Because of greed which they assumed they are untouchable they crossed the line of impropriety.
The cultural belief the Filipino brought to America that you can get away with anything got them entangled with the system. They forgot this is America…..everybody gets a place in the sun. Get caught you pay and the force of justice will knock your head off unforgiving. The Calimlims are not the only one who got caught in the spider web of American justice. There were doctors who did time and their assets confiscated. But, most of them are in the ghetto doing business among the poor, the unemployed who get their medical coverage thru MEDICAID.
Also, the fad right now is insurance fraud and the insurance industry is up to their noses to keep up. Accidents were set-up and the occupants file claims with a doctor in the scheme. This is how it works. Filipino doctors form a medical practice deep in the bowels of a city’s blighted neighborhoods where even the police have second thoughts to get in, establish a clinic with the pharmacy thrown in. This is absolutely legal but how they bill the state of services rendered and drugs prescribed was the problem. It came to the open the speed of which these doctors examined a patient is way out of standards. With the amount of patients seen in any given day the government found out a doctor only allocates 30 seconds to look at a patient and diagnose his/her sickness.
Likewise, these clinics recruit the winos, the bums off the streets to be prescribed with drugs and it came to the point that these practices became so blatant that drugs are given away everyday…yes, everyday… to the same patient. It created an atmosphere where drug abuse became a problem. Because of the indictments and convictions these practices came to abrupt halt. It takes a beating for them to learn.
On second thought, Filipino women living in bondage to these exploiters of what is right are still aplenty out there. The worse place you can find them is in the care giving industry…dominated by Filipinos…where people in America with expired papers are in abundance. It’s a pity how Filipinos can do to their own kind.
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