• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Really what it should be is that if a doctor prescribes unnecessary care, they should go after the doctor, not the patient. Doctors have malpractice insurance. If the health insurance can’t win a case of malpractice, then they should pay the bill. Why are patients in the midfle here at all.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      Really what it should be is that if a doctor prescribes unnecessary care

      That’s the core problem. The entity that defines unnecessary care is health insurance. And there are TONS of stories of them denying Diabetes medication for people with diabetes and anti-nausea meds to pediatric patients getting chemo.

      If they were doing the right thing, no one would be pissed off. The “recent target” was the one to decided to run on AI driven denials that were denying 90% of care for months.

      They are not fulfilling their duty to take the money from the subscribers and pay their righteous medical bills and instead using it as raw profit.

      They are employing their own ‘doctors’ to prove stuff that is definitely necessary is labeled unnecessary.

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        48 minutes ago

        Reminds me of the Tobacco Instrustry setting up the “Tobacco Institute”, to disprove any links between smoking being addictive, and lung cancer.

        They were constantly gaslighting the public, even tried to discredit the Surgeon General for his report on second hand smoke.

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      4 hours ago

      It’s the same trick as rebranding bank robberies to identity theft. It puts the blame on the consumer who can’t afford to defend themselves.

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      5 hours ago

      This is still validating the profit incentive of private health insurance.

      If the doctor prescribes unnecessary care, it should be none of these peoples’ business, because they shouldn’t be allowed any stake in the decision whatsoever.