Aviation Medical "Fraud"
Recently, Jim Logajan posted:
Larry Dighera wrote:
How is it that airmen are able to hide their medical conditions from
the licensed medical doctor examining them, but not from Congress?
Obviously they can't. The airmen were either:
1) Committing fraud against the Social Security Administration,
2) Committing fraud against the Federal Aviation Administration,
3) Neither of the above.
There are too many problems with the committee's report[1] that it is
difficult to know where to start. Here's an attempt:
(rest of this excellent analysis snipped for brevity)
It constantly amazes me how a committee charged with oversight can deliver
published reports with such elementary errors, numerous misstatements and
erroneous conclusions. And then I recall the notion that "people usually
get the government they deserve" and find it a really depressing
situation.
Neil
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