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.

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.