E-mail from Joe McCutchen (SB20)
Delphi and McCutchen are taking the same side on SB20, the legislation that would establish a prescription drug monitoring program. I get e-mails daily from McCutchen, most of them dealing with the Minutemen or some such. Here's today's e-mail from McCutchen to Sen. Denny Altes, the sponsor of SB20. Apparently, all legislators (as well as Brummett) were copied. The bill does have some support, as its intentions are to track and stop diversion of multiple and frequent prescription drug purchases.
The e-mail is on the jump.
The e-mail is on the jump.
posted by Steve Harrelson @ 2/05/2007 02:29:00 PM | Permalink |
2 Comments:
Denny,
Your Senate Bill 20 destroys the physician/patient/pharmacist relationship. Pharmacists are acutely aware when physician driven abuses occur and appropriate authorities are so notified.
Please visit one of our pharmacies or the one you patronize and allow the pharmacist in charge to acquaint you with the mountains of state and federal laws that we must abide by, and the records we keep. Your Bill does not address the true crisis.
Your Bill is an invasion of citizen privacy and the distribution of a patient’s health records would become conversation pieces across the state.
It is the ILLEGAL distribution of your mentioned medications that is the crisis, most of which are brought in and distributed through Mexican drug cartels in NW Arkansas. Innervate the Agency, FBI, BATFE, and the host of other law enforcement agencies to go after the real criminals. What we have here is a serious case of selective law enforcement.
Please withdraw your Bill. We have more than enough government intrusion from Washington, and thanks to Huckabee and the legislature, our state is beginning to flex its invasive muscle.
I do not believe you have an understanding of the duties of pharmacists’ and the demands placed upon us.
Kindest regards,
Joe McCutchen
Joey has been a pita since his days at Southside : ) but he's right on this one.
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