Rodnick/Welsh Vow to Keep Status Quo at ICA
Having originally ignored our requests to answer crucial questions regarding their stance on issues effecting the future of the ICA, Dr. Stephen Welsh posted his responses on Facebook.
Faced with declining membership and internal disagreements about how best to confront the Cartel, the ICA seems poised for the possibility of change should the right leadership prevail in the upcoming elections.
The choice now seems fairly clear: Vote for the Welsh/Rodnick ticket and keep the status quo, embrace primary care, third party pay and working closely with the Chiropractic Cartel. With this group get ready for the same old saws:
- We can change the Cartel from within
- We need to have a seat at the table
- All politics involve compromise
Welsh argues in his responses that chiropractic is the practice of primary care. This is consistent with the position of the CCE, ACA, and the rest of the Cartel.
Welsh argues that we need to have a seat at the WFC’s table. The same organization that has become a cancer throughout the world when it comes to subluxation based chiropractic. The same organization whose definition of chiropractic does not use the term subluxation and the same definition that Welsh voted to accept when the definition was adopted by the WFC. The same organization whose values are so far from conservative, traditional chiropractic that the West Hartford Group has adopted them.
If compromise is a political skill then Dr. Welsh and his ticket are very skillful.
This is not a time for compromise. Conservative, traditional chiropractic cannot afford a weak ICA. If this strategy continues there will be no need for the ICA in the chiropractic political spectrum. Sadly, one wonders if that’s not actually the plan.
As always I look forward to your feedback, comments and suggestions.
Matthew McCoy DC, MPH
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