Thursday, March 28, 2024

Re: “US Politics”

Robert VanHook

Vic Cocowitch was the consultant for the steering committee on the

consolidation issue. He worked sporadically for about 8-9 months and was

paid about $25,000. He gets no more money for consolidation passing than

he does if it fails. His job was to facilitate the discussion among the

members of the O&P organizations to help them figure out what they wanted

to do.

On Tuesday, July 20, 1999 12:52 AM, Anne Russell [SMTP:[email protected]]

wrote:

> Hi all

> I asked this question before about the consolidation, I was only given a

> brief answer regarding this guy. Never what he’ll be paid if this

> consolidation job goes though.

>

> I forgot to talk about this before, but at the AAOP meeting in New

Orleans,

> there was a guy, (Victor?), pacing up and down during the consolidation

> session.

> I asked him what he was doing there, the spin answer, he was helping out,

> but not getting much money.

> The question is who is this guy, and what is his connection to this

> consolidation?

> Will he get paid when we vote on going to consolidation, and how much.

> How much has he gotten paid so for?

> I hope the people that recommend the consolidation are not the people

that

> will get paid by implementing consolidation.

>

> I’m voting NO, it is not because I don’t like change, I’m voting no

because

> it allows the elite of this profession to have more control. That same

mind

> set has not helped the profession, but has addressed only how to get

higher

> on the ladder of OandP. I know I am going to get flak for the previous

> comment, but we wait for the Medical Community to show us how to do our

job.

> What one item has been created by our leaders that increase our work

load?

> The real point is not protecting the past but creating new

things/concepts

> that increase our work.

> The consolidation will allow the new Org. to control the board of

directors

> of ABC in a few years, there is not enough of spread in who votes for the

> BOD of ABC to keep this from happening. I have thought of the voting

> structure of course it is confusing, but I feel this consolidation will

> allow non certify persons to have control over time. We will have more

> members though.

> That’s all for now.

>

> [email protected]

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