I doubt it's good. Once the hospital becomes the insurance company, they have maximum incentive to not diagnose anything that will be expensive to treat.
It'd be back to the HMO days where they wouldn't run any tests. They'd just tell you it's heartburn and it'll go away in a few weeks.
With insurance separate from providers, the providers are free to test and diagnose as they believe appropriate.
The key here is to keep insurance companies away from “being a doctor” and/or keep them away from treating patients like a “paint-by-number” picture that was a fad a while back.
No checks except doctors that dont want to be sued.
“Its probably good. Depends on the checks and balances. Insurance companies sure don’t have our best interest in mind.”
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I doubt it’s good. Once the hospital becomes the insurance company, they have maximum incentive to not diagnose anything that will be expensive to treat.
It’d be back to the HMO days where they wouldn’t run any tests. They’d just tell you it’s heartburn and it’ll go away in a few weeks.
With insurance separate from providers, the providers are free to test and diagnose as they believe appropriate.
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I agree. Plus, if Dr Death Emmanuel likes it, that tells me it can’t be good for We the People.