[quote=Ches]
However, I question how a patient can fire an insurance company?
Thanks. Gene
Been there done it. United Healthcare reimbursed less than Medicare. I dropped them and told their patients sorry, please talk to your employer(s) about offering a different insurer next time around. I called the CEO of a medium sized manufacturing company who I knew socially and clued him in re "unhappy docs and employees". Emerald Health Network came in with ridiculous rules and payments. Same scenario. Ultimately UHC dropped by local businesses and then shaped up (okay, a lawsuit in southern Ohio helped) and I opted to see their patients again. Emerald was dropped the next year by the three major local employers (including my own hospital!) and happy patients returned to the fold.
For the life of me I don't see how any physician can think they are going to have any influence whatsoever over government and it's sea of bureaucrats, pols, lobbyists, grifters etc. Maybe it's simpler to have one entity to bitch about? Simplicity has it's virtue ;-)
