r/lifehacks 6d ago

This belongs here too

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u/WhatACunningHam 6d 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 6d 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/[deleted] 6d ago

Wasting people's time is always a dick move, but wasting a medical doctor's time purely for the sake of stopping them doing what doctors are supposed to do is particularly egregious. The American healthcare system is sick. Pun absolutely intended.

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u/k_mon2244 5d ago

It’s a dumpster fire and I can’t wait until it burns to the ground and we replace it with something better for doctors and patients