Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis Elimination Act of 2017

[WEBB PINKERTON]

What do you guys think about this legislation? A huge waste of medicare dollars. Wonder if Know Error is behind this?

Text - H.R.2557 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Prostate Cancer Misdiagnosis Elimination Act of 2017

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[LADoc00]

of course "Know Error" is behind this. Their entire business model was garbage before this bill. After they are a 100 million dollar start up.

Yah huge waste and we would be on the crap end of cuts after Medicare is drained of $$ to Know Error shareholders.

 

[Pathbusiness]

Pathetic.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

This bill needs to die.

The sponsor of the bill is from Indiana and he received campaign contributions from Peter Knapp. Peter Knapp is the founder of Strand Diagnostics and is a urologist at Urology of Indiana. Both of those entities stand to profit from the law as Urology of Indiana also has an in-office laboratory. In addition contributions were received from First Urology, who also have a large in-office urology lab in Southern Indiana. In-office labs will be the ones who profit big time from this. Follow the money.

Rep. Larry Bucshon - Indiana District 08

The sponsor of the bill is a republican by the way, so don't think for a second that republicans are any better than democrats. Both parties are equally corrupt.

 

[yaah]

This is such an awful bill, and following the normal pattern of inflating a problem that can then be defined as "someone else's fault" and presenting the solution as a cure-all.

Seriously, where do most specimen ID and mixup errors emanate from? OUTSIDE THE LAB. Where does the blame always go, though? The lab. "Lab lost the specimen."

Not to say that intra-lab specimen mixups don't happen, but there are ways to minimize or detect this that don't involve wasteful genetic tests (which can also be mislabeled).