I can easily forsee a day in the near future in which our health insurers will mandate "routine screening" as a condition of continued coverage -- and, and automatic "referral" for anyone "irrational" enough to refuse such a reasonable requirement, at the cost of losing their coverage.
Oh, dear. That is so scary to me.
The doctor I went to where I recently moved is incompetent and lacks diagnostic skills. When he could not figure out what was causing the pain in my leg, he recommended that I go to the Mental Health Clinic for Treatment.
That is a flash-back to the days when women's ills were often treated as "hypochrondia". With this new system, too many medical problems will be treated as "Prozac necessary". Just so doctors can cover up their incompetency and drug companies can make money?
Oh, Sweet Jesus, come quickly. I don't like this Brave New World.
LOL.....
Final diagnosis one year later? Multiple Sclerosis. A central nervous system disease. You see, he was right and wrong... it WAS all in my head! ;)
When the dr is incompetent and can't do his job, it's all in your head, right? Hell, bet he charged you a nice fee for that visit, didn't he? Then these drs wonder WHY they're being sued for malpractice because they want their country clubs, etc..I hope you went to another dr for a second opinion, and I hope you found yourself a NEW doctor and requested a copy of your entire chart as well. I don't know what state you reside in, however, there's a couple online sites where you can research your dr to see if and how many times he's been sued. Then they have the audacity to cry about tbeir insurance premiums rising! Time to oust these incompetent so-called drs. Get yourself a good attorney!
I wonder if some of the denial we're seeing on this thread has to do with the difference between those who've spent some time interfacing with the current medical system and those who haven't? If you're young, healthy, and been treated only for an occasional sprained shoulder from softball, or whatever, it's easy to think of the medical system as benign and based on altruism rather than money.
As I see it, one of the major factors that would turn a commission's recommendation like this into law is the heavy-duty lobbying from companies guaranteed to make money off of it.