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Not to mention squads of clerks at every single doctor's office doing battle with entire armies at the insurers in a many-to-many clusterfuck of epic proportion
by free_rms 6y ago
Not to mention squads of clerks at every single doctor's office doing battle with entire armies at the insurers in a many-to-many clusterfuck of epic proportions over every single bit of care delivered.
- Apocryphon 6y agoAlso America is the most litigious society in the world [0], making medical malpractice suits an ever-present threat in everyone's minds; but tort reform does not help taxpayers, and hurts patients [1]. [0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/12/03/why-us-litigious/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/12/03/why-us-lit... [1] https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/medical_malpractice_fact_sheet.pdf https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/medical_malpracti...
- free_rms 6y agoI'm not super educated on this but I thought that malpractice insurance basically "handled" the problem at a reasonable overhead compared to other gross inefficiencies.
- gorbachev 6y agoThe costs of malpractice insurance vary a lot based on specialty and location: https://www.leveragerx.com/blog/medical-malpractice-insurance-cost/ https://www.leveragerx.com/blog/medical-malpractice-insuranc... A few years back I was reading articles on how doctors were changing specialties or retiring entirely due to the high cost of malpractice insurance. I'm not sure if the situation has changed since, however.