Doctors as plaintiffs suing the insurance companies
(via CuriousJD and symtym)
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I’m really surprised none of you commented on this. After all, here are doctors, as PLAINTIFFS, attempting to drag hundreds of millions, if not billions, out of a helpless insurance company. Using your typical logic, this will greatly increase the cost of health care. What’s more, they’re doing it as a CLASS ACTION!
Doesn’t this indicate that there is no sense left in our legal system? That the need for reform is urgent? Where is the outrage?
There is a doc in Boston who left a Patient open in the OR and went to the bank. That doesn’t mean we all do it.
But I thought one allegedly wrong verdict meant they were all wrong? You mean we can’t apply the same standard to your profession?
There IS need for reform. We need to reform a system which alleges to pay for a service and decides after the fact that it wasn’t worth that much after all. We need to reform a system which takes a 90 days float on the back of hard working people before unscrupulously reducing the payment amount and claiming that too much time has passed for an appeal. We need to reform a system whereby the consumer of a product is not the purchaser of the product. We need to reform a system which makes unfunded mandates upon physicians while simultaneously reducing reimbursement for services. We need to reform a system which overvalues technical skills and undervalues cognitive ones.
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