For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865

Re:For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865 by avocado4 on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:06PM (#21866246)

It's called a Medical Cartel run by Physicians through regulatory capture. There's plenty of leeches upstream (pharmas, hospital admins, PBMs, vendors, you name it), but at the base of the funnels are doctors holding keys to supply through state-level licensing regulations.

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Re:For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865 by daxorid on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:42PM (#21866616)

Physicians are in an incredibly privileged position.

In no other profession can one murder a quarter million Americans annually(1) via chart reading apathy or gross incompetence at multiplying by 10, and not only keep one's job, but get paid for rendering the botched services, as well.

Imagine being a plumber who gets paid after making your customers' leaks ten times worse. That's the life of every doctor in the US.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28186008

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Re:For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865 by kapuasuite on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:18PM (#21866358)

Literally this - doctors are gatekeepers and are paid handsomely for it.

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Re:For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865 by mfoy_ on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:44PM (#21866635)

Don't know why you're being downvoted... this isn't wrong, just unsavoury.

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