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From: Robert McCulloch
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Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: new group
> > What started out as a joke, STIF, (Save The Independent Facility) may become a reality. I’ve talked to some people, smarter than me, about actually setting up a group comprised of only independent O and/or P facilities. This in itself is probably illegal. Don’t care. Problems are :
> * How do you define an independent ? We don’t want a “Hanger vs everyone else”. What about Wright-Fillippis in Michigan with 30 offices. Is that an independent ? How about
> SCORE in Southern California, which is simply a group made up of independents ?
>
> * We want to narrow the gap between what independents and the big companies pay for
> products, especially the same products. It would be great if independent companies would
> sell products directly to the independent facility for the same price SPS sells it for. That’s
> probably impossible. SPS would simply lower the price again, just as they do now. Yet
> we don’t want STIF to become a buyers group or a middle man.
>
> * Remember one thing about the big companies, there are more than twice as many independent facilities as there are chain offices. And whatever you think of Hanger, they got rid of Novacare !! Write to me personally. Bob McCulloch [email protected]
> or [email protected]
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