United healthcare is notorious. It's 32% claim rejection rate is legendary. It's an unbelievable frustration for physicians trying to get coverage for care for their patients. You spend hours on the phone with them. You pour man-hours into the prior authorization paper work. You document. You explain. You cajole. Then they reject the claim and meanwhile while you're dicking around with this bureaucratic nonsense, your patient is not getting treatment. The patient gets the shaft while they post record profits for their shareholders.
I totally understand the emotions swirling about the CEO's murder. It's reprehensible to try and hold one person's life as punishment for an entire organization like this, or to call for his death at all. That's not moral, but I understand.
Insurance as a for-profit enterprise is a major drain on the US healthcare system. You need a profit motive to get people to be willing to take on the financial risk the business entails. That's Econ 101, but these guys have too many laws and policies that allow them too much safety from paying claims they should be paying.
Fixing it is not simple however. A scalpel is needed. Maybe one of those monstrously large scalpels they use for autopsies, but a scalpel, and not a chainsaw.
Disagree. It's come to the point that the laws and policies have wrapped themselves like a cat's hairball stuck in a vacuum cleaner's roller bar. It intentionally defies targeted solutions.
Needs to be crushed and discarded in its entirety. Add new medical schools, triple the doctors and care modalities, and costs will decrease on their own. Insurance can be pure disaster coverage and ignored for normal healthcare.
Yes and get the illegals out of the equation. Free treatment for them means we all pay more when many Americans are the working poor who can't afford to pay more. It pisses me off to no end seeing them show up to our hospitals, get treatment and don't have to worry about paying because they're on some sort of facility assisted sliding scale which usually means free with or without medicaid. I've had it with my employer. They make me ill, claiming to be a Catholic institution but mandated poison jabs for their own employees. Thank the Good Lord I have a religious exemption.
United healthcare is notorious. It's 32% claim rejection rate is legendary. It's an unbelievable frustration for physicians trying to get coverage for care for their patients. You spend hours on the phone with them. You pour man-hours into the prior authorization paper work. You document. You explain. You cajole. Then they reject the claim and meanwhile while you're dicking around with this bureaucratic nonsense, your patient is not getting treatment. The patient gets the shaft while they post record profits for their shareholders.
I totally understand the emotions swirling about the CEO's murder. It's reprehensible to try and hold one person's life as punishment for an entire organization like this, or to call for his death at all. That's not moral, but I understand.
Insurance as a for-profit enterprise is a major drain on the US healthcare system. You need a profit motive to get people to be willing to take on the financial risk the business entails. That's Econ 101, but these guys have too many laws and policies that allow them too much safety from paying claims they should be paying.
Fixing it is not simple however. A scalpel is needed. Maybe one of those monstrously large scalpels they use for autopsies, but a scalpel, and not a chainsaw.
Disagree. It's come to the point that the laws and policies have wrapped themselves like a cat's hairball stuck in a vacuum cleaner's roller bar. It intentionally defies targeted solutions.
Needs to be crushed and discarded in its entirety. Add new medical schools, triple the doctors and care modalities, and costs will decrease on their own. Insurance can be pure disaster coverage and ignored for normal healthcare.
Yes and get the illegals out of the equation. Free treatment for them means we all pay more when many Americans are the working poor who can't afford to pay more. It pisses me off to no end seeing them show up to our hospitals, get treatment and don't have to worry about paying because they're on some sort of facility assisted sliding scale which usually means free with or without medicaid. I've had it with my employer. They make me ill, claiming to be a Catholic institution but mandated poison jabs for their own employees. Thank the Good Lord I have a religious exemption.