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Aviation Medical "Fraud"
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com... I wasn't aware that medical disability information was a matter of public record; interesting. Who said it was? There's nothing to stop two federal agencies from comparing databases, as long as they don't disclose the information in the databases to the public. I'm *not* in favor of such fishing expeditions, but just the same, the government has a long history of doing them. Just curious: Why would you be *against* the gummint comparing notes? The present example comes to mind as plenty of reason to be very wary. The usual dictum is "garbage in, garbage out." We seldom mention the transformation process in between. It's true that you can't make good information out of bad (GIGO). It's equally true that you can take perfectly good information and produce pure garbage, as they did in this case. 40 in 40000 hardly qualifies as "widespread abuse." I, for one, am amazed and thrilled that the bureacrats actually bothered to check something, for a change. Oversight is good. Weeding out abuse is good. Promulgating it into law and yet more layers of bureaucracy is not good. We don't need more laws. We don't need more bureaucrats. In fact, bureacrats == abuse from my point of view. |
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