2scents
Tried
a. didn’t work He had no symptoms.
IVe since hinted to patients to exaggerate their symptoms, Its easy to get a CT scan in ED, though I hope you appreciate the absurdity of this suggestion, Lie, commit insurance fraud to get Health care you have paid for already
b. It was more than 500, and no they didn’t have that much lying around. Though perhaps I should have pushed harder. Renal cell carcinoma does not tend to Grow quickly I was optomistic that they would eventually agree to pay for the scan (as they did). Maybe I should have told him to just pay and figth later to get reimbursed. I doubt it would have changed anything (as I mentioned earleir) but it is something I think about
C. Ultrasound was equivocal
CA
no its better for doctors and/or the patients to decide
DrP
“We seem to agree that CEOs make lots of money in their positions and that high paid CEOs are needed for the health insurance companies to function.”
disagree completely
” We also agree that (as unfortunate as it may be) CEOs (and companies) need to either be aggressive in denying claims (lawfully or unlawfully) to keep premiums down or they’ll either go bankrupt or put out of business by the competition. (It’s wrong, I know, but that’s the only way it can function.) ”
Agree but while you view that as a feature. To me hat is a bug. In other words yes That is the way it has to be to function this way. My reply is: It cant be that way there fore it shouldnt function this way. we need a new system. Period.
” We finally seem to agree that a physician should be doing everything for the best interest of a patient and setting aside how his / her decision will affect the bottom line of the company.”
Not sure that was ever in dispute. Though this seems to contradict your previous statement “…CEOs (and companies) need to either be aggressive in denying claims…”
“What we seem to disagree on is who should be running the healthcare in this country.”
Yes becasue of what yyou addmitted was “as unfortunate as it may be” If it is unfortunate, change it! It doesnt HAVE to be this way. We chose this.
“Despite all the problems going on with corporations running healthcare as a business I still think it’s the lesser of the two evils. Just because there are decisions that are being made that are morally wrong doesn’t mean the alternative is better.”
YES! that is where we disagree. As I said from one of my first posts