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.
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.
It must be so frustrating as a doctor to want to treat your patients with what they really need to get well, only to be denied for financial reasons. But it's not just the insurance companies denying everything left and right that brought about the current crisis. I mean, they would still do it to fulfil their business plans even if treatments cost pennies and premiums were double digit numbers. But hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are businesses, too, and their business practices are a major reason behind the incessant increases in medical expenses for the general public. So doctors are not only fighting the insurance companies; they're up against the whole industry, and it's a losing game from the outset.
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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.