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Re:Open source hospital price database by sh34r on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:04AM (#36321659)
Have you tried to find a new GP for an adult with private insurance recently? Many areas have a shortage in general. This has little to do with insurance coverage, and everything to do with the bad incentives of the medical profession. Who would become a GP with your MD, when you can make twice as much money as a specialist instead? It's like getting a CS degree from Stanford and deciding to become a sysadmin at a high school with it, instead of becoming a SWE.

Conversely, I'm surprised you found a dentist and a mental health provider that takes any insurance at all, and didn't have a months-long wait list. I've almost always had to self pay for both...

Re:Open source hospital price database by lazyasciiart on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:22AM (#36321749)
Yes, in fact several of the doctors I called would have been happy to take her on if she had private insurance. This has everything to do with insurance.