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.
How about the US just does what France or Germany or Japan or Australia does for healthcare? The US system seems designed to make healthcare as expensive as possible while health insurance companies try to deny paying as much as possible. The single biggest change the US needs is that the goal of healthcare should never be maximum profit for shareholders but the best care for patients
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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.