Oklahoma Physician Exposes Senator's Conflict of Interest

2/24/2020

Medical policy groups and parental rights advocates are calling into question the business interests of the Senate Health Committee Chairman, Greg McCortney, of Ada.

With a deadline looming this week on legislation affecting state public policy on medical spending and who has the right to make important health decisions, The man at the center of the discussion is a senator with extensive financial interests at stake.
Dr. Jim Meehan has been an active participant in addressing medical policy issues and he's published a strong warning about some serious questions that need answers.

I believe Greg McCortney (R-Ada), the chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, former Senator Irvin "mandatory vaccination" Yen's good buddy, consistent opponent of parental rights (HB 3014), and co-author (with another problematic lawmaker, RINO, Carol Bush) of SB 924, needs to be investigated for violations of state conflict of interest/"fair political practice" rules.
Here is SB 924: http://oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB%20924
Every state has regulations designed to protect the public from unethical lawmakers that abuse their political position to enact laws for personal benefit. In my opinion, Mr. McCortney is violating the rules and regulations against legislator self-dealing. I believe complaints need to be filed and an investigation commenced.
In my opinion, Mr. McCortney is not only a lawmaker that has been #bought by the pharmaceutical-medical-industrial-complex, with large amounts of money flowing to him from doctor's groups, hospitals, and pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers like Merck, HE IS the pharmaceutical-medical-industrial-complex. He personally owns medical businesses that profit from his pro-medical industry, pro-pharma, and pro-vaccination bills and votes.

Dr. Jim Meehan

There is no question that Greg McCortney owns

multiple hospice and palliative care centers in several Oklahoma cities.
Mr. McCortney is also associated with the McCortney compounding pharmacy.
Aside from his possible interest in the compounding pharmacy, McCortney's medical businesses are focused in a highly profitable area of the medical industry, hospice and palliative care.

This industry is as notoriously unregulated as it is profitable. Hospice clinics bill federal and private insurances for an extraordinary number of services that generate enormous amounts of money. Vaccinations are easy, fast, and recurring profits for businesses like McCortney's. As a physician, practice management expert, and former owner of a medical billing company, I have seen first-hand how these hospice and home-health businesses game the insurance system in ways that serve their financial interests, many times with little regard to the health of their patients.
When Greg McCortney proposes and supports laws, such as SB 924, designed to use the force of state law to essentially advertise and increase uptake of flu vaccines in the same patient demographic served by McCortney's personal in-home, hospice, and palliative care businesses, he is serving his personal interests. Passage of SB 924 would benefit McCortney personally. This is an intolerable conflict of interest that deserves public awareness and official investigation.

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