You don’t want their blood now a days anyway. From a fellow vet (who hasn’t been allowed in the building for over a year) you have my sympathy. Such a fracked system.
I was informed the other day all the docs at the via are just school docs, it’sa bing testing place and they know it. They make fun of how they treat us half the time. Disgusting “government” healthcare is another one of the lies we get to live in these days.
Regular docs are highly policed as well, and non-VA care is extremely messed up too. Most other countries have average care levels far above our own, due to the medical cartel. Doctors that buck the system exist, but they have to dodge the regulators.
I agree. It seems even with the funds to post out of pocket, finding an honest doctor is no easy task. A sad state of affairs. Praying it won’t last much longer. I thought it would have broken by now, but it’s super well funded.
It's been a long slow process to control the profession. But it could all be cracked open at one place: the ACGME, or Association for Collegiate Graduate Medical Education. They set the quotas every year on incoming students. They did a hostile takeover (called it a merger) of the osteopath accreditation board, as osteopaths used to be an escape from AMA allopathic medicine. They set the match (which is itself exempt from antitrust law by an act of congress) to control residencies, but the ACGME is not exempt from antitrust legislation. Any large state could also break their hold by licensing doctors differently, but they are trapped by preconceived notions, i.e. cowardice. I've done a lot of research on it. Many doctors hate them, but once they're through the gauntlet of obtaining their license they are happy to never look back at them again. Lots of doctors are ditching the insurance and allopathic models and going cash-only, but they are enslaved by huge debt, and very expensive as a result.
You don’t want their blood now a days anyway. From a fellow vet (who hasn’t been allowed in the building for over a year) you have my sympathy. Such a fracked system.
I was informed the other day all the docs at the via are just school docs, it’sa bing testing place and they know it. They make fun of how they treat us half the time. Disgusting “government” healthcare is another one of the lies we get to live in these days.
Regular docs are highly policed as well, and non-VA care is extremely messed up too. Most other countries have average care levels far above our own, due to the medical cartel. Doctors that buck the system exist, but they have to dodge the regulators.
I agree. It seems even with the funds to post out of pocket, finding an honest doctor is no easy task. A sad state of affairs. Praying it won’t last much longer. I thought it would have broken by now, but it’s super well funded.
It's been a long slow process to control the profession. But it could all be cracked open at one place: the ACGME, or Association for Collegiate Graduate Medical Education. They set the quotas every year on incoming students. They did a hostile takeover (called it a merger) of the osteopath accreditation board, as osteopaths used to be an escape from AMA allopathic medicine. They set the match (which is itself exempt from antitrust law by an act of congress) to control residencies, but the ACGME is not exempt from antitrust legislation. Any large state could also break their hold by licensing doctors differently, but they are trapped by preconceived notions, i.e. cowardice. I've done a lot of research on it. Many doctors hate them, but once they're through the gauntlet of obtaining their license they are happy to never look back at them again. Lots of doctors are ditching the insurance and allopathic models and going cash-only, but they are enslaved by huge debt, and very expensive as a result.
Your knowledge far outweighs mine on the matter, thanks for sharing some of it with us. Sad state this world finds itself in.