Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ...
by ajross on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:01PM
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> Everything is controlled by insurance companies. You can’t do anything unless it’s exactly how insurance wants and only for what insurance will pay.
Framed that way, this sounds terrible. But... the truth is actual health care outcomes for insured patients in the USA are extremely good. This holds in comparison to other nations, when corrected for GDP and patient income, etc...
"Insurance companies" are, at least in the narrow sense, doing what we pay them to do really well.
They may or may not be making things easier for nurses, which is a different metric. But nurses aren't their customers, we are. And we're getting a fairly good[1] product.
[1] Albeit extremely expensive relative to other nations.
Framed that way, this sounds terrible. But... the truth is actual health care outcomes for insured patients in the USA are extremely good. This holds in comparison to other nations, when corrected for GDP and patient income, etc...
"Insurance companies" are, at least in the narrow sense, doing what we pay them to do really well.
They may or may not be making things easier for nurses, which is a different metric. But nurses aren't their customers, we are. And we're getting a fairly good[1] product.
[1] Albeit extremely expensive relative to other nations.