I am so tired of all these various entities making millions off people who are sick and need competent, compassionate care. Tired of having to make numerous calls to get legitimate claims paid or trying to navigate an extremely confusing system where everyone places blame on others and sends you in circles. Tried of waiting and waiting on customers service calls only to have them answered by people who not only don't live in the state I live in but are overseas. I feel sorry for the CSRs - it's not their fault it's this way but half of the time I can't understand what they're saying. I'm tired of paying thousands of dollars a year for healthcare coverage that doesn't cover necessary procedures. For-profit healthcare has had decades to prove the selling point of being more affordable, more efficient, with better health outcomes and the opposite is the case. We have the most expensive healthcare system in the world, with falling outcomes and increasing difficulty in accessibility, accessing doctors, specialists, people going bankrupt with medical bills, record profits and perks for CEOS, while people die from lack of care, etc. It's a corrupt, cruel system in the most wealthy nation in the world and illustrates how unfettered greed has become a hallmark of America.
Something I haven't heard much about is that health insurance companies second-guess doctors and insist on what they call conservative treatment. When patients are in severe pain, doctors are often persuaded or forced to delay tests by insurers and, therefore, treatment, to prove they are not aggressively treating when the conservative approach of waiting to see if the symptoms magically go away is more appropriate, according to the insurer. In the meantime, the physicians ordered opiates when their patients begged for pain relief, often resulting in the patient becoming addicted. I'm not a doctor but an RN, but I have seen this scenario play out with patients and fellow nurses. Will we ever be free of the profit predators in health care that interfere between the doctor and patient?
Doctors write prescriptions, pharmacies fill them, and pbms make money. The opioid crisis and other problems should be placed on doctors, who violated the Hippocratic Oath: Instead of first ,do no harm, it is first, make money for everybody, including kicks to me for writing prescriptions,
I am so tired of all these various entities making millions off people who are sick and need competent, compassionate care. Tired of having to make numerous calls to get legitimate claims paid or trying to navigate an extremely confusing system where everyone places blame on others and sends you in circles. Tried of waiting and waiting on customers service calls only to have them answered by people who not only don't live in the state I live in but are overseas. I feel sorry for the CSRs - it's not their fault it's this way but half of the time I can't understand what they're saying. I'm tired of paying thousands of dollars a year for healthcare coverage that doesn't cover necessary procedures. For-profit healthcare has had decades to prove the selling point of being more affordable, more efficient, with better health outcomes and the opposite is the case. We have the most expensive healthcare system in the world, with falling outcomes and increasing difficulty in accessibility, accessing doctors, specialists, people going bankrupt with medical bills, record profits and perks for CEOS, while people die from lack of care, etc. It's a corrupt, cruel system in the most wealthy nation in the world and illustrates how unfettered greed has become a hallmark of America.
Something I haven't heard much about is that health insurance companies second-guess doctors and insist on what they call conservative treatment. When patients are in severe pain, doctors are often persuaded or forced to delay tests by insurers and, therefore, treatment, to prove they are not aggressively treating when the conservative approach of waiting to see if the symptoms magically go away is more appropriate, according to the insurer. In the meantime, the physicians ordered opiates when their patients begged for pain relief, often resulting in the patient becoming addicted. I'm not a doctor but an RN, but I have seen this scenario play out with patients and fellow nurses. Will we ever be free of the profit predators in health care that interfere between the doctor and patient?
Doctors write prescriptions, pharmacies fill them, and pbms make money. The opioid crisis and other problems should be placed on doctors, who violated the Hippocratic Oath: Instead of first ,do no harm, it is first, make money for everybody, including kicks to me for writing prescriptions,