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The doctors don’t create the bills, or even really influence billing. The billing issues are caused by hospital administrators who are mostly MBAs or Policy mas
by 0xB31B1B 8y ago
The doctors don’t create the bills, or even really influence billing. The billing issues are caused by hospital administrators who are mostly MBAs or Policy masters, and they’re negotiating with MBAs in insurance companies.
- ChristianBundy 8y agoDo you think that the doctors or hotel administrators have more power?
- scarejunba 8y agoThe AMA isn't even just complicit. It is pretty nearly a cause. There's plenty of blame to go around and doctors are not passive participants in the process.
- L_Rahman 8y agoI'm seconding scarejumba's position here. Doctor's are enormously powerful and effectively unionized through the AMA. They can influence both the operations of hospitals and the American government itself. Like any aristocratic guild that provides a necessary societal function however, they as a block choose to profit from it. This is not every doctor or even every ER doctor. But it's important not to let doctors as a class off the hook.
- technofiend 8y agoWhy would you intentionally lower your income rate, particularly after racking up $500k in tuition? Doctors have no incentive to lower bill rates as long as they're pocketing a percentage.
- zo1 8y agoIt's unfortunately probably the case that these things have been feeding into each other. Some doctors charge more -> college's can justify higher tuition because people think doctors now make more -> now new doctors NEED to charge more to tuition debt and to get the benefits they were sold on. Rinse and repeat.