...Medicare enabling legislation stated that: Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision...the manner in which medical services are provided... 1 Since that time, however, volumes of Medicare law have in fact directly "controlled" the practice...

...on July 30, 1965) reads s "Section 1810. Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision...the manner in which medical services are provided." There is something seriously wrong in this republic. Physicians cannot practice medicine in such a...

...practice of medicine. Section 801 stated: 'nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the matter in which medical services are provided...' Our aging population, the demands of all involved...

...repeated for five decades: "Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any federal official or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine." The next five passages embellished the theme, forbidding state control over medical personnel or compensation...

...FEDERAL INTERFERENCE SEC. 1801. [42 USC 1395] Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision...the manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee of any institution, agency,...

...Security Amendments of 1965 explicitly provided: Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision...the manner in which medical services are provided, or the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee of any institution, agency, or...

...section of the bill read, "Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any federal official or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine."7 The remainder of the legislation carried out this mandate to the letter, even leaving the...

...1395a and 1395b 42 USC •1395 provides: Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision...the manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee of any institution, agency...

...in Section 1801 of the Act that created Medicare. This Act specifically forbids, and I quote, "any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision...the manner in which medical services are provided, or over the selection, tenure or compensation of any officer of employee of any institution, agency...

...law enforcement agencies. Indeed, the preamble to the Medicare law expressly prohibits any federal "supervision or control over the practice of medicine...the manner in which medical services are provided." Similarly, the Controlled Substances Act, which this Act would amend, generally requires the Attorney...