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melm00se

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20. I know of one

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 12:24 PM

Jan 2025

doctor who worked for an insurance company.

Her license had been suspended for a series of failures so she could not practice medicine but she was perfectly fine to be able to review case files and determine if tests and procedures were medically necessary.

She was called "peer reviewer".

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'It's a death sentence': US health insurance system is failing, say doctors [View all] erronis Jan 2025 OP

The billionaires get rich overcharging for health insurance which does not deliver services. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #1

Do the present administration care?............... Lovie777 Jan 2025 #2

It is called The Madcap Jan 2025 #7

It's called complicity in manslaughter dickthegrouch Jan 2025 #32

It seems to me like a coordinated effort The Madcap Jan 2025 #34

I don't disagree but manslaughter is much easier to charge and convict than genocide /nt dickthegrouch Jan 2025 #35

THEY PIMP FOR THE INSURANCE COMPANIES Skittles Jan 2025 #37

Medical schools are also part of the problem. Limiting the number of new docs produced raises costs/delays dutch777 Jan 2025 #3

Good additional analysis about hospitals, hospitalists, and RVUs. erronis Jan 2025 #5

That has been an problem for 80 years now IbogaProject Jan 2025 #8

If we can get free medical school LittleGirl Jan 2025 #9

In most cases ... liberalgunwilltravel Jan 2025 #10

Many of the midlevels are horrible, many are wonderful RockCreek Jan 2025 #26

I was talking about a PhD program liberalgunwilltravel Jan 2025 #33

Which PhD programs produce practitioners? RockCreek Jan 2025 #36

I'm not talking about practitioners liberalgunwilltravel Jan 2025 #38

True buzzycrumbhunger Jan 2025 #28

We have the same problem with the dental associations. yardwork Jan 2025 #11

More fillings for dentists! KPN Jan 2025 #14

The sad thing is that a lot of children don't get those fillings. yardwork Jan 2025 #15

Yes, there's that too. KPN Jan 2025 #25

Replace the word "care" with "profit": our healthprofit system, healthprofit insurance, United Health Profit, etc. sop Jan 2025 #4

Or perhaps replace it with wealthcare. BattleRow Jan 2025 #17

Yup. Had my own battle. Doc won. It's gonna get worse. Joinfortmill Jan 2025 #6

Let me oversimplify, simplified capitalism kills. KPN Jan 2025 #12

Bane Capital - the root of evil erronis Jan 2025 #18

I used to spell it the same way. I don't Ilsa Jan 2025 #21

Yep, the increasingly unregulated, profits-over-people form of capitalism practiced in this country is deadly. sop Jan 2025 #24

"Ha ha. Suckers." - Republicon Insurance Execs (R) BoRaGard Jan 2025 #13

As someone who has been self insured MontanaMama Jan 2025 #16

Just a note: By the time you need a PET scan they already know you have cancer. flashman13 Jan 2025 #19

I know of one melm00se Jan 2025 #20

Six weeks ago homegirl Jan 2025 #22

"We already have death panels. They're called insurance companies." Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #23

No shit. sakabatou Jan 2025 #27

Doctors inflicted a lot of that on themselves because of greed. valleyrogue Jan 2025 #29

Back in my good-old-days, we paid the doctor directly. All transparent between patient and doctor. erronis Jan 2025 #31

It has been a death sentence for a looooong time Clouds Passing Jan 2025 #30