The Bad Doctor
Bill Frist’s long record of corporate vices
The good Dr. Frist voted against patients‘ rights to sue their HMOs for failure to provide adequate treatment, and voted to give tax subsidies to HMOs and insurance companies to offer prescription drugs to seniors, rather than providing them through Medicare. Frist has, of course, personally raked it in from the interested industries, gobbling up $123,750 in campaign cash from the HMOs and $265,023 from the pharmaceutical industry. Frist also took $130,204 from the food-processing industry -- and then helped kill a bill putting teeth into the USDA’s authority to crack down on processing plants that violate federal standards for bacterial and viral infection of meat and poultry.
There‘s a lot more, like this -- so much that it leads to an inescapable conclusion: In the Senate, “Good Samaritan” Frist has almost daily violated the injunction of the physicians’ Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm.”
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