VERMONT FORCES MEDICARE AND MEDICAID PATIENTS TO SUBMIT TO DRUG TESTING!!!!

Patients in Vermont and New Hampshire who are receiving social security disability and are on Medicaid and Medicare are being forced by their doctors to submit to urine drug testing for illegal drugs, even though many of these patients are over 50 years old and have never been accused of a drug crime in their life.
Cris Ericson, candidate for U.S. Senator for Vermont 2006, has complained to the Vermont Medicaid Fraud division 802-241-4440 that doctors have no private right of action to charge a patient with a crime and that a medical doctor is not a lawyer or a licensed crime investigator and has no right to libel and slander a patient and demean and humiliate and abuse them by demanding a drug urine test under duress of the threat that if they don't submit to the test then the doctor will refuse to continue to prescribe necessary medication.

The Vermont Medicaid Fraud division, Rey Nori, 802-241-4440 stated on March 20, 2006 that investigator Michelle Black had determined that all of the patients were being tested and therefore no one was being singled out and therefore it was not medicaid fraud.

Cris Ericson, candidate for U.S. Senator for Vermont 2006 alleges that it is fraud to do unnecessary medical testing, particularly of disabled persons over the age of 50 who have never been charged with a drug offense in their entire life before, and Cris Ericson alleges that Michelle Black might be in conspiracy with doctors and possibly taking "kickbacks" from doctors who might be taking "kickbacks" from laboratories.

Cris Ericson has complained about this issue to Governor of Vermont Jim Douglas because she is also a candidate for Governor of Vermont 2006 and she has clarified that she will make this a campaign issue if he does not intervene to stop this patient abuse.

Cris Ericson has complained to Congressperson Bernie Sanders because he is her opponent in the 2006 race for the open U.S. Senator seat for Vermont and she has clarified to him that she will make this a campaign issue if he does not help to stop this abuse because Medicare refuses to pay for the unnecessary drug testing and poor patients could get stuck with the bill.

This is clearly abuse for a doctor to tell a patient that the doctor will not continue to prescribe necessary medicine if the patient refuses to take a urine test to prove they are not taking illegal drugs.

What private right of action does a medical doctor have to charge a patient with a crime?

Isn't forcing someone to take a drug urine test a charge of taking illegal drugs?

Please, if you are an attorney for the ACLU or any group willing to fight for patients' rights, please contact Cris Ericson, 879 Church Street, Chester, Vermont 05143-9375 telephone 802-875-4038.
http://crisericson.com
and
http://makemarijuanalegal.com