A big insurer backed off its plan to pay less for anesthesia. That’s bad.
What the fight between Anthem and anesthesiologists was really about.
The TLDR of the article is:
... was not actually about putting the interests of patients against those of rapacious corporations. ... it would have reduced payments for some of the most overpaid physicians in America [Anesthesiologists]
There is a reason Anesthesiologists make a lot of money, and it's not because they are overbilling their time. Is this writer's head completely up their ass, or something?
Providers – not insurance companies – are the primary drivers of high health care costs
Oh, nevermind, it actually seems they're just a complete shill for Managed Care Deniers.
Shame on this website for claiming to be journalism, but not marking this article as opinion, and not marking it as a shitty opinion.
Yes, providers drive up costs. Because they have to over bill to make up for what insurance denies.
They have to overbill so that when insurance says "We're only paying you 15% of your 'retail' charge," they can still get paid.
seriously. aneshtesiologists make a lot of pay because their malpractice rates are higher. they don't make the highest net pay of physicians. last I knew it was dermatologists due I believe because of real low malpractice. thing is the biggest chance of death in surgery is the anesthia but its way lower than it used to be because their org actually did a lot around the eighties to find best practices to way reduce fatalities.
If you think the headline is stupid, take a gander at the other shit this author has wrote.
Except for this it's all about how Dems need to move further right. Of course he's taking the corporate side.
Yep, what an asshole.
This guy be deep throating boots, not just licking them.
nice puff piece, doctors are not the enemy, but the oligarchs are
I work in healthcare and the author is not entirely wrong. We do drive up costs.
Look up MRIs per capita, for example. Tech is a huge driver of healthcare costs.
Pretty much any way you twist it, if in California I can get medical care for $8,000 (and that's after my insurance pays a portion) or I can drive across the border into Tijuana and get the exact same quality medical services and only pay $2,600 out of pocket and have my care done by doctors who were trained and licensed in America and who run hospitals that are equivalent standard to American hospitals, then something must be going on.
Even if an MRI machine costs 5 million USD, if it's going to work for 20 years you can amortize that cost out over that 20 years and definitely make more than 5 million dollars off of using it without charging every single head that passes through its magnetic rings $6,000 a pop.
If MRIs cost $1,000 in America do you know how many people would voluntarily go through an MRI just to get a quick check and make sure that there's nothing hiding deep inside of their bodies waiting to lurch out and steal away their life?
Suck my dick.
