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AFAIK, physicians in the U.S. are vexed by how many hours per day they spend dealing with insurers rather than patients. I wonder how many clinic-hours we coul
by DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
AFAIK, physicians in the U.S. are vexed by how many hours per day they spend dealing with insurers rather than patients.
I wonder how many clinic-hours we could add to our capacity by some kind of moratorium on that level of paperwork.
- baq 7y agothere won't be any paperwork because there won't be any insurance. even your congress and senate realizes this by now. it's an unworkable proposition - you either bankrupt the 10-20% patients which require hospitalization or you bankrupt insurers. you're in for a revolution in healthcare.
- kazagistar 7y agoCongress just had to add a ton of exemptions to a bill to guarantee paid sick leave for CORVID, making it meaningless for a vast majority of americans, because of republican pushback. Never underestimate the greed and corruption baked into the influence channels in the USA.
- zaroth 7y agoThe problem with the House bill is that it puts employers on the hook for making the payments. You’re just ushering small businesses faster off the cliff of insolvency if you legally require them to pay workers while they are also legally required to be shut down. If the government is forcing a company to shut its doors, the government should be prepared to pay the employees “quarantine leave”.
- nradov 7y agoThe majority of patients who will require hospital care are already Medicare beneficiaries. And for many others, the insurers don't really bear any financial risk because they just process claims and pass the costs on to group buyers.