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a couple things to consider: * high turnover impacts efficiency. * Exhausted doctors make mistakes which will lead to malpractice lawsuits I think incentives
by gnarbarian 2y ago
a couple things to consider:
* high turnover impacts efficiency.
* Exhausted doctors make mistakes which will lead to malpractice lawsuits
I think incentives are misaligned across the board in the medical industry. This goes for doctors, patients, hospitals, insurance providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, medical equipment/material supply companies and probably everyone else connected to the industry.
These poor incentives lead to pathologies that drive up costs and result in poor patient outcomes.
Anyone who has encountered a "prior authorization" when trying to get a time sensitive medication filled has experienced this.
Some doctors are opting to "drop out" of the counterproductive insurance game by accepting only cash payments, but that only solves a small part of the problem.
- rickydroll 2y agoMy neurologist has said that she will give you all the information you need to go through the whole preapproval process but she is not going to drive it. I suspect she is doing this because she was not getting paid for the effort and she is tired of fighting insurance companies. My eye doctor (damn good specialist) told me about how bad private equity folks over the medical industry. He is grateful to his practice has been able to avoid the private equity vacuum cleaner. You're right that incentives are misaligned. It seems that the choice is either to provide good-quality medical care or feed the ravenous beasts of the finance industry.