Visiting a few doctors it seems to be clear to me, it’s all about making money from insurence. It seems quality takes a back seat when you pay out of pocket. My guess is that doctors focus on profitable pacients who have insurence. So I wonder about the ethics of insurence influencing the medical industry and medical practices. What policy can be introduced so that all pacients get fair treatment dispite having or not having insurence? Could the focus on insurence lead to internal corruption? Perhaps we should audit these systems to ensure the quality of our mendical systems.
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Copy pasted: Doctors spend less time now a days because insurance pays less and less and requires more and more documentation making less time for the patients. If they don’t see enough patients, their employer will fire them for someone who will. It all points back to insurance and corportization of US healthcare being them problem. Also cost of medical equipment, malpractice, EHR, etc keep going up while pay goes DOWN. Doctors are squeezed from both sides and they’re forced to see more patients to even have a shot of keeping up
See for yourself:
In the future there might be a two tier healthcare system. 1 where you see a real doctor but pay cash and another where you see a NP or PA for poor quality healthcare. NP programs have near 100% acceptance rates, are often completed 100% online while working full time as an RN, and it’s just 3 semesters.
No one in their right mind dying on the table is going to request an NP to do their surgery over a doctor. Just as you wouldn’t trust a stewardess to pilot a plane just because she’s been working there for 5 years.
On a side note, you can check to see if your doctor or NP or PA takes pharma money in the form of dinners and other things:
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