Informed opinion is to the contrary. Dr. Finley is continuously monitoring changes to FTC policies that could affect physicians, and as a result supplemental updates of her report will be made as necessary. Physicians in Providers Networks Need a Union to Effectively Deal with Managed Care Organizations. This is where patients come from these days. In order to protect doctors' rights to practice what they know to be the best medicine, and often to protect their rights to reasonable incomes, doctors need to organize as a labor union.
Reasons are many.
This report will discuss a major set of reasons. A labor organization can assist providers within the existing guidelines of anti-trust regulations. This was issued jointly by FTC and the Department of Justice in September, 1994. The officials who talked with me confirmed that revisions of these policies will probably be issued in late August. At the present time no individuals would be allowed to come in to read the proposed revisions or discuss them.