Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen were hired by major insurance companies after being disciplined by state medical boards or making multiple or outsized malpractice payments.
“profit driven death panel”
health insurance profits only exist at the expense of human suffering
If democrats knew what they were doing communication wise and weren’t complicit, they’d use this language of ‘corporate death panels’. But of course, if you criticise the insurance industry you criticise Obamacare, and Obamacare is perfect.
obamacare is a conservative love letter to the health insurance companies.
if it werent for the pre-existing conditions clause we would have gotten nothing.
obama was a complete failure as a democrat… but a spot on republican.
The thing is, because Democrats are the ones that passed it, other democrats can’t criticise it from the left any more either. They’re stuck defending it against Republican attacks (based on mostly bullshit, they don’t have a competing plan).
I don’t like insurance companies. But the skills required for surgeon vs medical director are vastly different. Lacking the skill to perform a surgery doesn’t preclude the knowledge of medical necessity. I don’t have any problem with someone switching careers when one clearly isn’t working out, especially when the one not working out is ‘surgeon’.
you clearly didn’t consider the implications of “histories of big malpractice”
It really does though. Medicine is far too siloed and far more specialized now days than most people realize. This makes it nearly impossible for someone to really be able to determine medical necessity outside of their specialty. I would never trust a surgeon on endocrine issues or an emergency physician on primary care. The skill set and knowledge is just so wildly different.
There is a reason physicians are trying to get laws passed that would require peer to peers be conducted by people in the same specialty.
Pro publica does some amazing reporting.
