Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/08/a-human-right.html
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I have yet to find an American doctor that extolls the virtues of insurance companies denying them payment.
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so grateful to everyone fighting this fight, the idea I might get health coverage sometime in the next decade is a huge comfort to me
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It’s almost like these young doctors want to practise medicine instead of run a business (especially an inefficient business that involves dealing with lots of no-value-added parasites to get 50-cents on the dollar).
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I have a good friend whose brother in law is a doctor. I bet he backs this.
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I don’t know what their proportion of influence has been in this development–sometimes resistance to good ideas has to literally die out–but the good docs of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have been championing single-payer for three decades.
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As a pharmacist I’m right there with them. Without all the overhead and admin that’s required to figure out what the fuck is going on with billing thousands of different insurances it’s actually possible to open a private practice or small pharmacy. Plus, the burnout largely evaporates.
I’d rather do healthcare then do billing, phone calls to physicians to get meds changed for insurance and constant inventory maintenance (because I have to have a different drug for every stupid formulary out there). I’d even happily get paid a little less to have the constant stress and idiocy of it all off my back and I’m sure a lot of physicians are realizing the same. Especially in family practice, I’m sure surgeons and specialists who are well insulated from this insanity and who make $350k - a few million a year couldn’t care less.
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I hope someone brings some sanity to this issue. Health care should NOT be about how much money you have. In a civilized society, it is a basic human right, not a privilege.
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During the heated debate on the resolution, older doctors lectured their young challengers about the possibility that universal health care would erode doctors’ income.
Oh! Oh God! I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize what was at stake here. Of COURSE you have to protect your income! How incredibly selfish of us! Let me just write you a check for the $2.3 million now for my future cancer treatment expenses. It’s a damned good thing I make a bit more than minimum wage at the moment, huh? Hah! Joke’s on me for not becoming a goddamned doctor when I had the chance, so my fucking income could be protected! Whew! Maybe next lifetime, eh? Say, what is that oath you have to take? Isn’t it something about “doing no harm”? Hmmm. Nah. Never mind. I don’t see how that could remotely apply.
ETA and thank God for these young doctors. I wish them all the luck in creation.
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I really hope this does happen at some point for you guys.
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But this kind of scheme could never work!
It’s being used by many countries right now.
A bunch of tiny countries, sure. And everyone hates those systems!
No, they don’t, because—
Yeah, it could never work.
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Ugh, Richard Burr is still in office, and the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Talk about under-qualified!
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WE MUST MAINTAIN INEQUALITY, AND KEEP PHYSICIANS IN THE TOP TIER!
good to know they’re focused on what’s important
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Well, that rules out the United States right now.
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And by right now you mean the eternal now I assume, because shit’s been kind of fucked up here for a good long while now, one might argue since the founding of said nation.
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It’s called the Hippocratic Oath,not the hypocritical oath, you dimwits.
Perhaps making college free would help to change the worldview of doctors and lawyers from maximizing revenue to doing their damn jobs well. Young doctors, lawyers, and other graduates should not have to worry in their early career years about returning loaned money, but about developing their expertise.
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Israel, huh? Did not know that.
I suspect that secretly (or not so secretly) that conservatives love Israel not for the smart way that they govern, but for the brutal way in which they shoot and blow up Muslims.
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It’s been severely screwed up on the healthcare side since Henry Kissinger went to Nixon with the plan for HMOs.
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