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He was a work comp claim administrator - in the US, they are some of the worst people on the planet. This was before doctors became incurably greedy - so a bit
by tiahura 3y ago
He was a work comp claim administrator - in the US, they are some of the worst people on the planet.
This was before doctors became incurably greedy - so a bit early for first party health insurance.
- HideousKojima 3y ago>He was a work comp claim administrator - in the US, they are some of the worst people on the planet. Whoah now, don't talk about my dad like that! In all seriousness though, my dad said that all the places he worked at over the years generally accepted over 99% of the claims they received. My dad did develop a visceral hatred for chiropractors over the course of his career though.
- DennisP 3y agoI have my suspicions but I'm still gonna ask the reason for the chiropractor hate.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoChiropractors learned their trade from a ghost Science research fraudsters could learn a lesson from them in how to get away with it
- gnu8 3y agoSome Chiropractors and their patients are under the impression that actual diseases and injuries can be cured by performing the manual adjustments of the body, which leads to people dying of untreated cancer, or orthopedic injuries being aggravated instead of treated properly. Not to say that there aren’t good Chiropractors who recognize their limits, but they all tend to get painted with the same brush.
- analog31 3y agoFor my neighbor when I was growing up, it was diabetes.
- LanceH 3y agoIn a discussion around worker's comp claims it would be about the chiropractor's who make all their money from worker's comp claims and accident settlements. Every person who walks in that door will need unending treatment at the chiropractor. They walk hand in hand with the ambulance chasing lawyers. For some people this is their only experience with a lawyer and chiropractor might be when someone walks in, "slips" in their store, and they get sued. The chiropractor is one method the lawyer uses to run up the total. It's always a back pain that can never be fully diagnosed or treated. Over the years, the chiropractic field as a whole has backed off from curing everything to being split between something in the neighborhood of a massage including joint mobility (which is fine), and the fraud.
- HideousKojima 3y agoBecause of the countless times he had to deal with claimants going to the chiropractor and the chiropractor claiming that in order to treat their injury they need to come in three times a week for the next 20 years. I exaggerate but there are plenty of dishonest chiropractors trying to milk everything they can out of worker's comp insurance, even if it is of little to no benefit to the patient.
- tokai 3y agoChiropractic is a pseudoscience without any provable benefits. At best its placebo, at worst you die from it. It's literally a big scam made by a serial snake oil salesman, that has embedded itself in our health systems.
- barbariangrunge 3y agoWorkman’s comp in Canada typically takes over seven years to process and never actually compensated you, it’s always a fraction of what you’d need to even make up for lost income
- brigadier132 3y ago> This was before doctors became incurably greedy Doctors are not the reason healthcare is expensive.
- pstuart 3y agoWell, the AMA does constrain the number of doctors in the US so that supply and demand part is on them.
- woooooo 3y agoTalk to any doctor about the priorities of the MBA-holding decision-makers at their hospitals.
- analog31 3y agoWhen each one accuses someone else of gouging us, assume that they're all gouging us.
- woooooo 3y agoDoctors are paid the same as software engineers for a job that is like 10x as hard. MBA hospital administrators have greed as their official main job responsibility.
- qwytw 3y agoOn average they seem seem to be paid quite a bit more (at least by 2x?).
- Ledienejid 3y agoResearch shows that nurses have outcomes comparable to do those of doctors. It's not 10x as hard as SWE, don't buy into that. Plus, thats irrelevant, doctors supply is limited artificially and for no good reasons. The main culprit of high costs are is the insurance companies greed, but doctors are far from being blameless.
- creamynebula 3y agoRather than it being greediness by a class of individuals, in my view, it is that capitalism rewards greediness, and sometimes it obligates you to be greedy when you are just an employee or selling a service. People are inserted in a system composed by many layers that incentivize and obligate greediness.