As a physician, my patients are continually stymied by the preauthorization requirement for CT scans and procedures by some insurors. This ridiculous hurdle add

As a physician, my patients are continually stymied by the preauthorization requirement for CT scans and procedures by some insurors. This ridiculous hurdle adds weeks of delay sometimes. And there is no real quality assurance or data assessment regarding the necessity of the procedure. I have to call, go through a phone tree, the delays are frustrating and unecessary. I didnt go to school and residency for 10 years to justify a job deemed necessary by some corporate second guesser. This is just a process added by an MBA that adds no value to the patient care. It is the result of trying to apply Adam Smith's precepts of a free market economy to a. market where the consumers have no choice. No one chooses the illness they have. A capitalist model serves this market poorly. And the whole idea of making a profit off of someone's illness to pay shareholders is wrong.