Patients pay their insurance company to cover medical procedures. The insurance companies make money when the patients are healthy, and the patients don’t pay full value for the medical procedures they do need. Everyone wins. Inadequate Health Insurance Payments Not the doctors. Patients pay and insurance companies reimburse only for procedures provided. Doctors foot the
Not to date myself, but in the world of 21st century healthcare, Marcus Welby has left the building. Our healthcare experience has changed over the years, primarily for the better, but it is still changing in ways that many find hard to accept. Doctors are now providers, and patients have become consumers; medicine is no
Becoming a doctor used to be tops on the career totem pole. If you were a physician you were part of a distinguished profession, inherent with the respect and dignity the lengthy education and responsibility deserved. That was then, this is now. Now a doctor is the ‘bad guy’ bringing in six figures, while the
REBECCA S BUSCH