Physician removed forcibly from United flight after overbooking--UPDATED

[Ms. Toad]

373. It is an interesting juggling act.

Aside from constantly teaching the insurance company how their system works (including making them revise their software twice because it did not match the polich), traditional health insurance manages so far (from straight Medicaid, to managed care medicaid to traditional and non-traditional Kaiser, POS, and PPO).

Fortunately, aside from the trial, we haven't had to travel for medical care. The comorbid cancer would require travel, but indications so far are that she is at lower risk for it than most with the disease. So we haven't had to deal with cross-state lines, although both my daughter and I have (separately) received permission for out-of-network care to be treated as in-network.

But my point wasn't addressed to whether doctors should have special privileges - but to whether they are fungible. Aside from family physicians, ours generally aren't. My daughter's circumstances are unusual, but more common than you think. And, although my conditions are only uncommon, rather than rare, I have one that few doctors even pretend to be able to fix - and another that multiple doctors purport to be able to fix, but their success rate is abysmal - and their complication rate (permanent nerve damage) approaches 50%.

Unfortunately, my Master of the Universe moved a few hundred miles away- so I'll just hope I'm done with that problem - coz I'm not subjecting myself to his former colleagues.