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You're assigning blame to whom you are seeing - the doctor - whom is a worker like anyone else following a system. The true decision makers are people you don't
by devwastaken 5y ago
You're assigning blame to whom you are seeing - the doctor - whom is a worker like anyone else following a system. The true decision makers are people you don't see, like the administrators of that clinic, the pharmaceutcal company, and the insurance company. All business people that count on you to blame the workers for problems created by the admins whom by the nature of costs are trying to assign blame around in a circle. Everything is a company, and companies value profit over people.
These companies are so massive and complicated in their roles and processes you and I cannot easily figure out specific actionable blame onto the specific administrators and processes involved.
- dantheman 5y agoYou can say that, but the doctors are extremely high paid and exert huge amounts of power.
- relaxing 5y agoThe corporations involved (pharmaceuticals, insurers, hospital systems) each make 1000x what a single doctor does.
- devwastaken 5y agoIf we want to assign blame by proxy - by virtue of being a citizen in the U.S. people are all paying for other humans to be murdered by the U.S. military. Do we blame the powers that make those decisions and enact against those or do we blame all 300 million Americans and treat them as murderers? Blame those who made the system. Doctors are forced to work 80 hour weeks for not as much pay as you're thinking. Clinical Doctors don't have the power to better their own conditions, how are do they have the huge power to reform the regulatory issue of medicine pricing?
- EamonnMR 5y agoThe only people with enough power in the system to demand a change are doctors. They could, example, refuse to do procedures until the billing department gets its act together and gives patients a price up front. They could demand to know the price to fill a prescription before they write it. If doctors took collective action to resist the horror show that is medical billing it would change overnight.
- devwastaken 5y agoDoctors work very long hours for not as much pay and are not in general well treated. That does not spell "power". Again, they're workers, they don't make the business decisions. Clinical Doctors don't have the same tools to protest because physical protesting would only lead to the public believing the "evil doctors" are trying to get more and avoiding treating patients. The clinic can replace them, and often times do, with imported degrees. Start blaming the source of the problem - the business executives whom made these decisions.
- datavirtue 5y agoSounds like a doctor's union. Is that a thing?