Don't give doctors a bad name like that. They work their asses off to help people and go many years being overworked and underpaid to do it
It's the insurance companies that reap the benefits of people's misfortune
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Came to say this. For profit health insurance is an abomination and should be illegal.
Don't ignore for-profit hospitals with completely made up costs that can vary up to 10x between hospitals in the same city.
It’s not the doctor and it’s def not the insurance company (although insurance companies are evil in their own way).
Insurance companies make money from limiting what services they cover for you and by negotiating doctors down into lower rates for the services they do cover; the less money they spend on your services is more profit for them.
The people actually making money and charging obscene amount, are
- facility owners (hospital, clinics, urgent care) who produce nothing, but simply have the capital to own property and start the business
- drug companies that charge thousands percents of profit simply because they can (remember the epi pen scandal?)
The doctor seeing you wants to make a living doing something they enjoy and excel at; the facility owners are who hire people educated in medical coding just to tack on every possible fee they can, stopping just short of fraud.
That ibuprofen they gave you? It really cost less than a dollar to produce, package, and ship to the facility; but because you were inpatient when you swallowed it, well now it’s $35
That doctor that came by while you were sleeping just to glance at your chart without actually consulting or giving any review of care plan? That’s $600 because fuck you
Having worked in healthcare and insurance for 14yrs now, it’s just fucking depressing to see how everything works.
I'm with you but it's not the doctor it's the hospital administrators who live like the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
This is after they take a huge cut out of what the actual healthcare professionals make.
For real, I know there are exceptions, but I've worked with tons of doctors and not one gave two shits about someone's ability to pay. They would often argue with administration to help people who couldn't pay
Masters of Accounting
The doctors chose to work in such a hospital though in order to get higer wages
The doctor has $375k in loans they need to start paying back pretty soon.
It'll be 20 years before they're in a cushy private office with (only) a 50hr work week.
The issue largely exists in the healthcare industry (administration/insurance) that has grown up around actual medical providers and serve as middlemen and gatekeepers.
I’m too European to understand this
This is a shit take.
Doctors don’t discuss billing with patients, or their families. American healthcare is fucked enough in reality without making enemies of those trying to just do their fucking job.
having been through this exact situation, I get the point of the meme, and realize their intent was that "doctor" should be read as "healthcare industry". Just poor word choice. Other side of the story, the healthcare professionals that cared for him where wonderful and did everything they could for him and I am totally OK with them getting paid for their efforts.
The sad thing is that the people who do the actual work barely see any of the money.
Those CEOs work the hardest if you ask me
Especially the ones at the insurance companies where the patients medical decisions are ACTUALLY made.
All the layers of the bureaucracy managing the profit need their cut.
They get paid in countries with a decent healthcare system as well
My wife had a miscarriage a few years back. Yeah. All we got for our trouble was a massive bill. 0/10. Fuck this shit and this place.
Next week, it's gonna be auto mechanic's fault you can't get Disney in your Tesla.
Usually nobody talks how much it costs when it's free.
Obligatory "it's not free, you pay for it in taxes" braindead comment.
Obligatory "I'll take it"
I went to the hospital once and had to pay for parking! I will never financially recover from this.
This meme only makes sense in third world poverty,. Ok, well that or the richest nation in the planet.
If I thought the people who run for profit hospitals and insurance companies had human souls, I'd say they should be made to do this work so they could maybe see that it shouldn't be about profit.
But then I remembered they're all non-human garbage who should be first up against the wall in the revolution.
Doctors should be left out of this. It's not their fault America (and probably some third world countries) allow profit driven medicine.
The doctor doesn't tell them, they have special people with a little rolling computer that tells them.
Need a money back guarantee.
Right?
You didn't resolve the issues or mitigate their effect?
Sounds like you didn't deliver, therefore no pay.
Laughs in german health care system.
still cries about dead baby