<p>Medical doctors have been made political scapegoats for the financial crisis of healthcare and the failed war on drugs in the United States, says author Ronald Libby. In order to combat health fraud and abuse, the government launched tough new laws and guidelines designed to battle rising urban violent crimes, illegal drugs, and terrorism. But, by eliminating safeguards to protect the innocent, those same laws and guidelines also made it far easier for agents and prosecutors to arrest, charge, fine, convict, and imprison physicians. Current witch hunts for doctors now include wiretaps and whistleblowers who get 35 percent of the fines, even before conviction. Under a new doctrine of harmless error a doctor receives no protection against false testimony, Libby explains all of this, offering cases from media reports, personal interviews, and records of trial as examples in this compelling book. Huge law enforcement bureaucracies have been created to target doctors for alleged fraud, kickbacks, and drug diversion. Federal, state, and local police are rewarded for prosecuting doctors and other healthcare professionals, while investigators and prosecutors receive pay raises and promotions, and law enforcement agencies seize the assets of doctors charged with felonies. Libby explains that doctors are prosecuted for billing mistakes, for referring patients to clinics, or treating pain patients with pain-relieving drugs. They receive large fines and long prison sentences, some even harsher than those given common criminals who've committed the most violent offenses. Join Senior Research Fellow Libby, who is also a Professor of Political Science, as he shows us why doctors have been demonized as corrupt and greedy entrepreneurs, how media sensationalizes doctors' arrests, and what unjust prosecution could mean for the future of healthcare.</p>

The Criminalization of Medicine: America's War on Doctors (The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living)

Libby, Ronald T.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Praeger

The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa (Princeton Legacy Library, 808)

This book questions the notion that South Africa can exert effective political leverage over its economically dependent neighbors while itself remaining free of regional influences.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Business & Money

Economics

Princeton University Press

International

Les Deplorables focuses upon Donald Trump's third revolutionary effort to dismantle Franklin Roosevelt's "new deal" programs of big government that has dominated America since the depression of the 1930s. The first effort was Ronald Reagan's "Moral Majority" counterrevolution from 1980-89. The second attempt was led by Newt Gingrich's 1994 "contract with America" and Republican control of Congress in the 1990s. While the first two revolutions made inroads dismantling the federal bureaucracy from the top down, they ultimately failed because they did not have the sustained power necessary to transform government and society. Trump's effort is deeper and more powerful than the first two revolutions. This book is explains the third American revolution in the aftermath of the Tea Party's victory in the 2016 election. The leader of the revolution, Donald J. Trump, can aptly be described as the Tea Party President of the United States. Despite winning the presidency, however, the Tea Party is engaged in a battle with establishment Republicans (RINOs) for control of Congress and the media. The outcome of this contest will determine the success of the Trump revolution. If Trump's presidency is successful in carrying out his Tea Party agenda, Franklin Roosevelt's big government regime will end. Accompanying this revolutionary change will be a realignment of the party system that will likely overthrow the Democrats and make the Republicans the dominant political party under Tea Party leadership. Trump's Tea Party coalition, therefore, threatens the political establishment of both major parties, the federal bureaucracy, Wall Street, social elites, and the federal bureaucracy. This fits the classic definition of a revolution in which citizens overthrow the ruling elite. It is comparable to the American Revolutionary War of the 18th Century in which the founders of the new American Republic defeated the most powerful ruling elite in the world--the British Empire.

Les Deplorables: How the Tea Party Put Trump into Office and Rules America

Twelve Tables Publishers

During the 1980s, conflicts surrounding the international grain trade intensified as the value of the dollar rose and the European Community employed export subsidies to penetrate traditional U.S. markets. Ronald T. Libby shows that the U.S. government, armed with the Export Enhancement Program (EEP) of 1985, waged an effective subsidy battle with Europe during the Reagan and Bush administrations. American agricultural policy is, he argues, profoundly mercantilist in its orientation and strongly at odds with the rhetoric of liberal economic policy expressed by both presidents.Libby reconstructs the history of the EEP from its formation through the European response and the events of the latter 1980s. By subsidizing the export of surplus U.S. grain, the EEP eventually helped raise to intolerable levels the political costs of Europe's agricultural policies, and it became a major U.S. bargaining lever in the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations. Analyzing the EEP with reference to its political utility, Libby counters the prevailing assessment of mercantilist policies as retrograde and counterproductive. He seeks to demonstrate that the EEP did not endanger global free trade and that it succeeded in contributing to restoring U.S. dominance of the grain market. In addition, Libby presents for the first time a comparative data base on agricultural subsidies that illuminates their pervasiveness in international trade.Protecting Markets includes the most comprehensive available discussion of the political life of the Uruguay round and challenges fundamental assumptions about the politics of trade. It will raise the level of debate among political scientists and others concerned with U.S. politics, trade and agricultural policies, and transatlantic relations.

Protecting Markets: U.S. Policy and the World Grain Trade

NCROL

Previous studies of the mining industry's influence on Australian policy have been forced to rely on informed speculation about the industry's actions. Hawke's Law is the first to benefit from unrestricted access to industry sources and documentation, including mining-industry archives and interviews with top executives. It is also the only definitive study of the Labor Party government's long-promised attempt to formulate national Aboriginal rights legislation.

Hawkes Law

University of Western Australia Press

The Church of Woke vs. American Exceptionalism: The Struggle Over America's Civil Religion

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Independently published

American Ochlocracy: Black Lives Matter & Mob Rule

Philosophy

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