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Corporate Whistle Blower Center Launches New Initiative to Go After a Very Corrupt US Medical Device Industry and Urges Insiders to Step Forward for Possible Huge Rewards.
The Corporate Whistle Blower Center is launching a vital initiative aimed at exposing what they consider to be an extraordinarily corrupt US medical device industry.
The focus of this initiative is to encourage medical device representatives to step forward if they possess significant proof of wrongdoing involving Medicare, or Medicaid fraud, and or blackmailing hospitals into to use their medical devices.
The group says, “While one of our affiliated initiatives is very focused on problematic metal on metal hip implants, this campaign is not just focused on hip implants. We are also very interested in talking with medical device representatives from all areas involving medical devices such as artificial knees, stents, medical devices used in spinal surgeries, etc.
The medical device world in the US is a very corrupt, nontransparent, and grotesque, and we intend to expose this entire industry for what it is.“
The Corporate Whistle Blower Center is urging medical device insiders to step forward for what could be significant rewards for Medicare, or Medicaid fraud, provided they possess significant proof. For more information medical device industry insiders are encouraged to contact the Corporate Whistle Blower Center anytime at 866-714-6466. http://CorporateWhistleBlowerCenter.Com
(PRWEB) May 07, 2012
The Corporate Whistle Blower Center says, “Last week we received a call from a medical device representative, who finally had to step up to the plate about the fact his medical device company was selling a defective surgical implant device, that could end up crippling patients. He was afraid his company would harm him, or that his stepping forward might get him black balled from the medical device industry, but he set aside his concerns, and did the right thing. Medicare, and Medicaid fraud was involved, and because his company was selling a defective medical device we think he is going to get a huge reward.” The Corporate Whistle Blower Center is appealing to every medical device representative in the US, to step forward if they have significant proof their medical device company’s products they are defective, or if the medical device company is scheming with physicians to unnecessarily use medical devices, when less expensive treatment options are available. The group says, “If you are a medical device representative, and you have proof your company is selling, or has recently sold a defective medical device product, and your proof is substantial, we want to talk to you, and if you sell us on your knowledge, or proof, we will help you package your information, and we will find the absolute best national caliber whistleblower attorneys to advance the claim. No other group in the United States offers a service like this. Medical device representatives an call the Corporate Whistle Blower Center anytime at 866-714-6466.” http://CorporateWhistleBlowerCenter.Com
The Corporate Whistle Blower Center is also aware of specific medical device companies making comments to cardiologists, or orthopedic surgeons along the lines of quote, “How much do we have to pay you to get your business?” Or quote, “The more heart, or vascular stents you use, the better your consulting compensation package will be.” http://CorporateWhistleBlowerCenter.Com
Simple rules for a whistleblower from the Corporate Whistle Blower Center:
- Do not go to the government first, if you are a major whistleblower. The Corporate Whistle Blower Center says, “Major whistleblowers frequently go to the federal government thinking they will help. Its a huge mistake. Frequently government officials could care less, or they are incompetent.”
- Do not go to the news media with your whistleblower information. Public revelation of a whistleblower’s information could destroy any prospect for a reward.
- Do not try to force a government contractor, or corporation to come clean to the government about their wrongdoing. The Corporate Whistle Blower Center says, “Fraud is so rampant among federal contractors, that any suggestion of exposure might result in an instant job termination, or harassment of the whistleblower. We say, come to us first, tell us what type of information you have, and if we think its sufficient, we will help find the right law firms, to assist in advancing your information.”
Any type of insider, or employee, who possesses significant proof of their employer, or a government contractor fleecing the federal government is encouraged to contact to Corporate Whistle Blower Center anytime at 866-714-6466, or they can contact the group via their web site at http://CorporateWhistleBlowerCenter.Com
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Great, now if the money trial of how and who these payments were filtered through we will have more ammunition when the days of reckoning begin.
The problem is will the DEVICe world get a free pass or another slap on the wrist fine.
I am putting some serious thought into a response but just need to test my post works.
While I have a strong belief that in an ethical society there is a place for whistle blowing, I am critical of how people could see any moral value in motivating an already controversial act by means of offering a reward. No matter how significant the reward, monetary reward should not be the reason people take the step of whistle blowing. The motivating factor for morally permissible whistleblowing should be centred a sense of obligated loyalty to the victims of the corruption, that is greater than the perceived loyalty owed to one’s employer and not personal gain.
External whistle blowing has been widely stigmatised as an act of disloyalty by employees to the company for which they work and is usually only mitigated by a belief that the action is a moral obligation. The perception that “one blows the whistle on ones’ own team” (Davis, M. 1996. p. 145) shows that the base language of doing an act against your own team emotively brings thoughts of disloyalty which lets down the whole team. How can a person claim they are morally motivated when they are taking money from a third party that has no legitimate directive to eliminate the harm to society that this corruption is causing? Especially when the same blog’s simple rules include not going to the government first. Isn’t the government after all empowered by the people to punish and intervene in circumstances where people have significant proof that wrong doing is taking place? I realise some would argue that the government is just as corrupt as the organisations whistle blowers are reporting but as with internal whistle blowing is it not better to first try? It is extremely risky to long term career prospects even if morally obliged to do so. How do you think your prospective next employer would feel about an opportunistic person who breaks a perceived trust for financial reward?
The Standard theory sees the disloyalty associated with whistle blowing as morally permissible only where they have exhausted all other internal procedures (Duska, R. F. 1990 p. 6). The authors suggested option for blowing the whistle however goes straight to a more complicity theory approach which believes by speaking out a person is not guilty by way of being complicit in the corruption. In contrast the article clearly states the requirement associated with standard theory they “The would-be whistle blower has evidence that would convince a reasonable impartial observer that their view of the threat is correct” (Duska, R. F. 1990. p.7).
Loyalty as it relates to ethics goes back to antiquity, where it was a virtue mentioned by Aristotle in his philosophy which is a key contributor to the theory of virtue ethics. In these situations the moral agent is faced with conflicting loyalties which could cause them to question whether they should act or not. Virtue ethics would in certain circumstances view whistleblowing as a moral act. But by taking a reward for the act, is this not a sign of greed one of the worse vices of all? So no matter the final outcome or mitigation of serious harm to society would the reward not tarnish the virtue of the action? Another area of virtue relating to whistle blowing is trust, “to be whistle blower is to reveal information with which one is entrusted” (Duska, R. F. 1990. p.5). Most people even those not aware of Kantian Theory would think of a universal law type response that people must keep a trust.
Most pure ethical theorists would struggle to follow an argument which flits from one competing theory to another with such disregard. However I argue that theoretical ethics, is like an apple tree and the low hanging fruit of that tree are the key concepts of all the theories a person comes across that we can easily apply to real life situations which help to justify the premise of our argument, such as whether it is right to take money for whistle blowing to a third party.
In conclusion I would recommend to anyone thinking of blowing the whistle on truly corrupt companies and government officials, not to take this as an attack on proceeding down this path. But as a taught provoking message about how any reward and to whom you blow the whistle will influence how your friends, colleagues and community will view the act if not handled through the correct channels and for the right perceived motivations.
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