Insurance companies!!! They gotta be dismantled. Health insurance must be outlawed, seriously. A doc who operated on my knee, got something like $150 for the surgery. Even anesthesiologist got more. What a joke!
Fine, you want government healthcare, go right ahead.
Think that's bad. I've had two surgeries in 3 years for the same dang problem. Each time the surgeon operates, the problem just gets worse, the last surgery being done this past Oct. and I had to be see early Jan. because new problems have devoloped at the incision area and the main problems are STILL there. I thought they were wupposed to make things better, not worse.
I agree with you. I think insurance companies should be abolished. Medical savings accounts can be set up that earn interest, patients can pay whomever they want for their medical care at the fees the physicans set. It is absurd for an insurance company to dictate to a physican the course of care they must follow. Get the system back to physician - patient relationship.
I would imagine, but don't know for sure, that a private insurance company might pay quite a bit more than this.
That's only one of an unholy trinity that includes lawyers, insurance companies, and government. Those three entities are all contributing to the problem in their own equally destructive ways. I would almost say that they were the problem, but the root cause of all of the problems are the individuals who think someone else is responsible for paying their medical bills.
These things are all weighed out and many times the person making the decisions on whether the doctor delivered proper care isn't even another doctor, but a RN hire by your insurance carrier.