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I think the problem is less for doctors than companies. Doctors have to personally face their patients. You can only take being an immoral asshole so far. The
by socialdemocrat 7y ago
I think the problem is less for doctors than companies. Doctors have to personally face their patients. You can only take being an immoral asshole so far.
The problem is health care companies. To them patients are just faceless entities with wallets. The executive making decisions screwing them over never have to see their pain.
There is a parallel to Nazi Germany here one could use. The reason concentration camps were made was because it was mentally taxing to just gun down innocent people day after day for normal soldiers. Concentration camps in contrast got organized so that the victims had to pick up the dead ones and car them off. All the ugliness was out of view for the evil people running the show.
It was easy for Nazi bureaucrats to kill people with the stroke of a pen. Just names on a list. Never had to see somebody choking or bleeding to death.
Hence you get a big problem when power is moved away from doctors to companies. In this example e.g. the doctor while immoral may not have been quite as immoral had it not been for a company actively pushing him to provide patients.
Private enterprise should not be allowed to provide financial incentives to doctors. Who the doctor sends their patients to, should be entirely decided by medical necessity and not influenced by a potential for profit.
- r_singh 7y ago> Private enterprise should not be allowed to provide financial incentives to doctors. One side of the coin. Pharmacy benefit management companies should be scrutinised for their choice of drugs included in an insurance policy and how they price them, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management#Controversies_and_litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management#Co...