It is my opinion that eliminating mandated benefits is the primary objective of these commissions. Chiropractic is on the hit list. Those of you that are outraged about the IME done on your patients, the paper reviews, the requests for your office notes, and increased overhead from the overload of paper work will get relief if we continue to follow our present courses. Relief will come in the form of no chiropractic benefits paid in health care plans. Twenty-five years of participation on various committees, boards, and commissions has led me to believe that a majority of our practitioners are unaware of the crises facing the chiropractic profession.
Overutilization impedes our progress and threatens the viability of our future.
An informed membership is essential. Active involvement in efforts to eradicate or lessen serious issues related to the current crises is the resonsibility of every chiropractic practitioner. We are the architects of our profession, and as a professional group, we determine our future. Still others should sit on commissions, serve on committees, and sacrifice income while out of the office. We cannot wait for committees to study the problem for years.