Sounds like you are all good. 👍 Healthcare is a total mess right now. I know many folks who are searching for a way out. We are all slaves to the fucking system. The hospitals have cannibalized the local physicians by buying up all the groups and pretty much have a total monopoly on healthcare. If you step out of line, you get fired or treated so poorly you eventually just move on.
If physicians are not in network, they are slowly squeezed out. Some have tried, but most fail. There are a few still around, but they had to modify their business model to almost be medical concierges.
It happens with other areas too. Big business has decimated mom and pop pharmacies. Medicare D reimbursement killed off many of them because profit margins got too low (thanks to Bush and Obama for that). Insurance and pharmacy benefit managers got rich. Kickbacks to congress for passing all the laws made them richer. Small pharmacies got squeezed by design. They would never bow to the system like the chains. Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc all just try to get you in the store to buy other shit. They took losses on prescription meds and don’t give 2 shits. Avoid these fucking places and support small business whenever you can.
Im hoping for a better world soon, but like I said, it’s a shit show right now.
As articulated Jules ..it is a mess... recent talk has surfaced of a concept I used to know by a different name but is now called... parallel structures.. something we need to consider now.. and in the future..
Sounds like you are all good. 👍 Healthcare is a total mess right now. I know many folks who are searching for a way out. We are all slaves to the fucking system. The hospitals have cannibalized the local physicians by buying up all the groups and pretty much have a total monopoly on healthcare. If you step out of line, you get fired or treated so poorly you eventually just move on.
If physicians are not in network, they are slowly squeezed out. Some have tried, but most fail. There are a few still around, but they had to modify their business model to almost be medical concierges.
It happens with other areas too. Big business has decimated mom and pop pharmacies. Medicare D reimbursement killed off many of them because profit margins got too low (thanks to Bush and Obama for that). Insurance and pharmacy benefit managers got rich. Kickbacks to congress for passing all the laws made them richer. Small pharmacies got squeezed by design. They would never bow to the system like the chains. Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc all just try to get you in the store to buy other shit. They took losses on prescription meds and don’t give 2 shits. Avoid these fucking places and support small business whenever you can.
Im hoping for a better world soon, but like I said, it’s a shit show right now.
As articulated Jules ..it is a mess... recent talk has surfaced of a concept I used to know by a different name but is now called... parallel structures.. something we need to consider now.. and in the future..