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>The middleman role of insurance companies in American healthcare seems completely useless. They're not serving patients, doctors ... I think you're being too
by rl3 9y ago
>The middleman role of insurance companies in American healthcare seems completely useless. They're not serving patients, doctors ...
I think you're being too generous here. Insurance providers are not only useless, but of negative value to patients and physicians alike. They add yet another bureaucratic layer atop the healthcare system as a whole, and inundate physicians with red tape that interferes with care.
In my experience, insurance companies will actively go out of their way to fuck over patients on technicalities—even in life threatening situations—just to try and save a dime. The sheer indifference to humanity can be breathtaking at times.
- refurb 9y agoInsurance companies are just cost control entities. Even in a single payer system that function has to exist. Of course you can argue that having just one system is far more efficient than having hundreds of different ones as exists in the US today. However, someone still has to say "no" to certain care. I know when i was in Canada that role was taken by the gov't.
- rl3 9y agoCost control should not involve denying care to seriously ill people on a routine basis.
- refurb 9y agoTell that to the NHS.[1] [1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3222588/Thousands-cancer-patients-denied-life-extending-drugs-NHS-funding-cuts.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3222588/Thousands-...