Like Hogan's Sgt. Schultz, Senator Dick Durbin's Policy Director, Tom Falleti, wants to know nothing.

After over four years, I finally received a response from Senator Dick Durbin's office via a letter from Durbin's Policy Director, Tom Faletti. As has been the case with virtually all of the other political and government employees that I have had correspondence with over the past five years, Faletti's letter was void of fact.

At one point, even though he acknowledges that I was not asking Durbin's office to make a judgment about a health care quality issue, Faletti still suggests that I should solicit the opinion of doctors. I advised Faletti in my response, that a doctor's opinion is not necessary in determining if any Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services regulations have been violated.

I spoke with Faletti before faxing him my rebuttal letter. Faletti was very adversarial. Until a new president is sworn in, CMS is George Bush's agency. I cannot understand why the Policy Director of the (Democratic) Majority Whip of the US Senate, would not want to know about Bush's CMS' wrongdoing. However, Faletti defended CMS. When I offered him the documents that proved the wrongdoing, he wanted nothing to do with them. (I faxed some to him anyway.) He was adamant about not wanting to make a judgement about if there had been wrongdoing. If ignorance is bliss, then I wonder why Faletti was so cranky.

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letter from Faletti (page one)

letter from Faletti (page two)

rebuttal to Faletti (page one)

rebuttal to Faletti (page two)

rebuttal to Faletti (page three)