The War on Doctors in America

Medical doctors have been made political scapegoats for the financial crisis of healthcare and the failed war on drugs in the United States. The government launched tough new laws and guidelines designed to battle rising violent urban crimes, ban violent crimes, illegal drugs, and terrorism to combat health fraud and abuse.

But, by eliminating safeguards to protect the innocent, those same laws

and guidelines also made it far easier for agents and prosecutors to arrest, charge, fine, convict, and imprison physicians.

Current witch hunts for doctors include wiretaps and whistleblowers who get 35 percent of the fines, even before conviction.

The evil seduction of money has been so powerful to sway anybody to the prosecution side. The government gets the grand jury to indict anybody for anything. They can even indict "a ham sandwich". Once the indictment is issued, most of those indicted take a plea, primarily to avoid harsher sentences.

The government is always wrong and loses everywhere, but when prosecuting its citizens,

it suddenly becomes right, and they win 97% of the time.

Under a new doctrine of harmless error, a doctor receives no protection against false testimony. Libby explains all of this, offering cases from media reports, personal interviews, and trial records as examples in this compelling book.

Huge law enforcement bureaucracies have been created to target doctors for alleged fraud, kickbacks, and drug diversion. Federal, state, and local police are rewarded

for prosecuting doctors and other healthcare professionals. Prosecution became an arena for courier advancement for the desperate, as investigators and prosecutors receive pay raises and promotions, and law enforcement agencies seize the assets of doctors charged with felonies.

Doctors receive hefty fines and ridiculous long prison sentences

some even harsher than those given to absurd criminals who've committed the most violent offenses

About 80% of doctors whose life has been destroyed, are from ethnic minorities

Libby explains that doctors are prosecuted for billing mistakes, referring patients to clinics, or treating pain patients with pain-relieving drugs.

Join Senior Research Fellow Libby, a Professor of Political Science, as he shows us why doctors have been demonized as corrupt and greedy entrepreneurs, how media sensationalizes doctors' arrests, and what unjust prosecution could mean for the future of healthcare.