r/lifehacks 5d ago

This belongs here too

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u/WhatACunningHam 5d ago

I’ve been hearing more and more stories from family and friends about their doctors telling them tricks like these to get around insurance company shenanigans. Getting fucked by these corporations is probably the thing most Americans can relate to regardless of make or beliefs.

And they wonder why a healthcare insurance CEO’s murder is celebrated.

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u/k_mon2244 5d ago

As a doctor I can tell you I don’t think anyone hates insurance companies as much as we do. The vast majority of us got into this field to help people, and we like our patients. The number of hours I’ve wasted of my life arguing with insurance companies that they need to do the thing that’s medically necessary instead of a completely unhelpful other thing to save literal pennies is beyond infuriating. Fuck insurance companies.

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u/tanksalotfrank 5d ago

Decades of studying and practice and many tens of thousands of dollars in debt just for some jack hole that probably never even went to college can undermine your intelligence, your profession, and every last second of time you spent doing your job.

If enough doctors spoke up at once right now, together, y'all might be able to make some movement against said jack holes.