Schneider's Case: The Case Of Howard Schneider, Young Children

78-year-old Howard Schneider, a dentist located in Jacksonville, Florida, has gone under investigation for harming a select group of patients, young children. Claim have been made that Schneider has collected millions of dollars in Medicaid payments for procedures that were not medically necessary or authorized by his patients. Schneider claims that he has done nothing wrong. However, many people disagreed and spent weeks outside his office protesting. One victim was Brandi Motley and her 6-year-old daughter Briel. Motley brought in her daughter to have on tooth pulled and was told to wait in the waiting room because kids do much better without their parents back there with them. After three hours in the waiting room the nurse came out and
Patients can continue to receive procedures that are unnecessary, harmful and unauthorized because Schneider is not convicted for his crimes. The punishment he has received is not sufficient. Bad press for his business and name? Oh well. There is going to be that parent out there who takes their referral, doesn’t do research and their child will end up just bringing in extra cash for Schneider. The government has done nothing to help these parents. Why are their cases being settled out of court? Why are parents backing down? Why was there no police reports after Briel had seven teeth pulled instead of one?
Right now, the only way to help protect potential victims is for the parents of the current victims to continue fighting for justice. Schneider deserves to go to prison, revoke his license, slander his name. Schneider should never be allowed to touch another patient again. There should be laws that require places like dentist offices or doctor offices to be filmed for security and peace of mind purposes. Therefore, when patients are sedated, or parents are not with their children, there is still proof of what happened. Why is the law taking the side of the dentist? What do his nurses have to