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I had a conversation about this just this afternoon. I understand exactly what my doc was talking about. You pay a lot of money to get the education, learn the skill, turn it into a craft, and some bureaucrat insurance executive turns it into a number. All the work and passion the doc puts into being good at what he does is reduced to performing a #14998 procedure that to the insurance co. is no different than a #14998 performed by anyone else in the business.
I wouldn't do it. If the work I did could be described by a number, I'd find another line of work. Health care has been turned into a commodity by the insurance companies.
The money in medicine isn't in providing health care, it's in the insurance industry. When insurance company CEOs make over $10 million a year - far more than the doctors and nurses who actually provide care - there is a fundamental problem that isn't going to be solved by the free market any more than the bank you choose is going to affect the salaries of the CEOs. There is collusion at the top that consumers can't do anything about.
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