This is the reason your ER doctors are leaving
www.thestar.com
You don’t have a family doctor, and you can’t get an admission bed. So you end up waiting and waiting in the ER for a physician who might not be able to help much, writes Dr. Brian Wall.
    • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
      31·
      1 year ago

      There are literally not for profit corporations

      Non-profit corps make up a minority of all corps.

      many corporations have primary goals that are not maximizing profits.

      Talk is cheap.

      Family doctors don’t have to work for giant corporations

      But they are beholden to them through insurance, one of the most bureaucratic parts of american life.

        • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 year ago

          Just about every restaurant, coffee shop, hardware store, mechanic shop is a corporation, many of them have goals other than profit.

          Sure they can have those, but the only real goal is profit. Those things would exist if they were not profitable.

          Please explain how Family doctors are beholden to insurance companies.

          Are you joking?

                • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  If it was their only goal than every corporation would raise prices as much as they could.

                  That’s what they do though. Basically all corporations raise prices as much as they can. That’s how they profit.

                  It’s clear you don’t know what beholden means.

                  Maybe it’s a regional difference in how it’s used. I really don’t fucking care. But I’m glad to see you managed to find a way to be condescending.

                  Its against the law for doctors to refuse treatment based on insurance.

                  That only really applies for emergencies. And youre forgetting my original claim, going on some unrelated tangent. Like i said, basically no medical examination or procedure ever happens unless a medical professional gets the go-ahead from a health insurance company. If the insurance company says no, then tough luck, no cancer screening for you. If the insurance company says no, then tough luck, no blood work for you, etc.

                  Also:

                  https://www.baizlaw.com/can-doctor-deny-treatment-options/

                  “The doctor does not have a working relationship with the patient’s healthcare insurance provider”.

                  I never said anything about doctors refusing treatment based on insurance. That’s a strawman, and not even one that works in your favor.

                  Further family doctors treat patients all the time without insurance or out of network.

                  You sure love to point to exceptions when people are talking about the general trend.