It has begun, and you Docs better find a way to make your voices heard. As discussion of healthcare reforms heat up, the Insurers are out to make the Docs and patients the "bad guys" by saying:
1) patients are unhealthy
2) Docs order too many tests.
I recently wrote the following to the
AppealDemocrat "The ripoff in Health Insurance is with the Insurance companies. The average cost of a healthcare plan for a family of 4 is $1200.00. Health Maintenance Organizations usually pay the physician/provider $15 - $25 per month to provide care for the patient. The fraud is evident when you see that the former CEO of United Health Care, Bill McGuire who took with cash-and-stock paydays that have topped $100 million in recent years -- and he's still sitting atop stock options valued at $1.6 billion. For 1.6 billion, Mr. McGuire alone can afford to pay for the health insurance for 110,000 families of 4 for one entire year. That is 440,000 people!!! For this compensation, Mr. McGuire does not perform brain surgeries, nor does he perform open heart surgeries. Instead his organization provides a pittance in payment to the physician, while doing everything it can to deny benefits to the customers.
Until the insurance companies GET OUT of the medical business we will not see a reduction in health care costs.
I am willing to bet, an analysis of the executive compensation of insurance company CEOs you would find that there is more than enough waste for people who provide absolutely NOTHING to the healthcare system. Like Wall Street and Detroit, these people have found a way to game the system, providing a bad product, blaming the physician and the patient, and laughing all the way to the bank."
