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Tom Coburn

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Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 2005 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Coburn was known for his fiscal conservatism and advocacy for government transparency. He was a practicing physician before entering politics, which influenced his views on healthcare and government spending. Throughout his tenure, he was a vocal critic of wasteful government expenditures and often called for reforms to improve accountability in Congress.

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Oct 6, 2013

Does it strike you as strange that a child 8 years of age would have poor ability to deal with work stresses?

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Oct 6, 2013

I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the list of RFC forms and note that they all show 'Poor' on 'Demonstrated reliability.'

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Oct 6, 2013

And did you happen to encounter this patient in 2005?

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Oct 6, 2013

It is true you do work for the Social Security Administration as well.

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Oct 6, 2013

I think anybody who has a significant mental health problem is going to have poor reliability.

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Oct 6, 2013

You were not aware that a medical assessment of ability to do work-related activities would be used in evaluating somebody's disability?

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Oct 6, 2013

Yes. So why did you sign them? If you did not do them, you put your signature on them.

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Oct 6, 2013

Do you think it is appropriate as a medical professional to copy a claimant's subjective allegations word for word and pass it off as your own medical conclusions?

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Oct 6, 2013

All right. Why do you think he wanted to destroy the DB lists?

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Oct 6, 2013

You allowed it to run uncontrolled. You had great chances to stop this, and you did not.

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Oct 6, 2013

So all this occurred after the Inspector General's visit?

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Oct 6, 2013

So how is it that you also found that this claimant with an IQ of 61, two standard deviations below low normal, had no problem managing his money?

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Oct 6, 2013

So you found no objective findings that were different than the subjective complaints that were given to you by the claimant?

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Oct 6, 2013

So you are asserting that his status is totally unchanged from 2005.

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Oct 6, 2013

Yes, but it was against policy, right?

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Oct 6, 2013

So you did not routinely perform a mental status examination on patients?

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Oct 6, 2013

I know you evaluated the patients.

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Oct 6, 2013

You would agree we have already gotten testimony that Eric Conn was forum shopping just by the testimony that has been here today.

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Oct 6, 2013

That is a violation of the rules inside Social Security. Is that correct?

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Oct 6, 2013

To my knowledge, was Judge Daugherty ever disciplined for what he did?

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Oct 6, 2013

And it is true that you notified Mr. Hall that you were aware that Judge Daugherty was assigning himself cases as well?

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Oct 6, 2013

All right. We have heard from many judges that ALJ hearings can take as long as an hour or more.

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Oct 6, 2013

In May 2011, some of the details about the arrangement with Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty became public in an article, which you before related to. What was the reaction inside the Conn law office at that time?

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Oct 6, 2013

So you meet the numbers, but you did not really do anything?

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Oct 6, 2013

So he would back date it to the age grid or he would back date it to the last denial?

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