http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/03/when-will-doctors-find-it-acceptable-to.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/03/when-will-doctors-find-it-acceptable-to.html#comment-90176 Anonymous Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/03/when-will-doctors-find-it-acceptable-to-deny-medical-services.html#comment-90176 At some point people need to accept responsibility for the fact that they picked sucky insurance, they made a foolish decision in depending on their emploerer to pick sucky insurance for them, or of being part of a body politic that idioticly asked the government to take care of them. One individual doctor on the phone can't defray the consequences of all of these bad individual and collective decisions nor should he have to try at his own expense. At some point people need to accept responsibility for the fact that they picked sucky insurance, they made a foolish decision in depending on their emploerer to pick sucky insurance for them, or of being part of a body politic that idioticly asked the government to take care of them. One individual doctor on the phone can’t defray the consequences of all of these bad individual and collective decisions nor should he have to try at his own expense.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/03/when-will-doctors-find-it-acceptable-to.html#comment-90117 Doctor on a bike Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/03/when-will-doctors-find-it-acceptable-to-deny-medical-services.html#comment-90117 We sort of have it now to a minor degree. Would you really call up and fight for a patient who wants brand name Solodyne for their rosacea at >$500 a month when the insurance only covers generic minocycline? How many people would fight for an MRI on day one of a low back pain episode with no neurologic features just because the patient came in asking for one? We sort of have it now to a minor degree. Would you really call up and fight for a patient who wants brand name Solodyne for their rosacea at >$500 a month when the insurance only covers generic minocycline? How many people would fight for an MRI on day one of a low back pain episode with no neurologic features just because the patient came in asking for one?

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