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Insurance is annoying, but Physicians and healthcare workers have a legal license that drives up costs. Do we need a 200k/yr gatekeeper to basic antibiotics? O
by throwayEngineer 7y ago
Insurance is annoying, but Physicians and healthcare workers have a legal license that drives up costs.
Do we need a 200k/yr gatekeeper to basic antibiotics? Or would an experienced nurse be able to figure out the difference between bacterial and viral?
Do we need a nurse cleaning patients? Or is that a job for unskilled labor?
Government licencing has gone too far, and has created artificially low supplies of health insurance workers. This was driven by incumbent healthcare workers.
- speeder390 7y agoSure charge $300 for a basic office visit with a $50 appointment setting fee if you are a cash paying patient and make sure the front desk person is as snarky and rude as possible toward people without commercial insurance
- noelsusman 7y agoExperienced nurses already prescribe drugs for people. Walk into a random retail clinic and you will most likely be seeing a nurse, not a doctor. My PCP is not an MD. She has the legal authority to prescribe me any drug she wants, including highly controlled substances.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoIt's not experience, it's a different government license. Nurse practitioners are a 6 figure/yr job.
- noelsusman 7y agoA license that takes half the time to acquire and provides half the salary of a doctor.
- mywittyname 7y ago> Or would an experienced nurse be able to figure out the difference between bacterial and viral? Pfft. Doctors will give out antibiotics to treat viral infections just to shut people up. E.g. somebody goes to the doctor for the flu and demands antibiotics.
- shados 7y agoI read somewhere once that showed that doctors generally can't tell one from the other, either. Im not a medical professional and I have no idea how easy or hard it is to tell, but they can't.
- rb808 7y agoI went to a Dermatologist who looks for weird spots then cuts them off to send to lab. I'm pretty certain they dont need 10 years of training. $300 for a 5 minute job.