INSURANCE COMPANY PROFITS TRUMP PATIENT NEEDS IN AMERICA

It would be un-American for Aetna or any other medical control firm to make less money just to save somebody’s life, right?  Corporations are about share-holder value and executive bonuses, the rest is just process to achieve those ends.

For a medical doctor employed by, say, Aetna. to spend much time on any single insurance claim would cost too much–too much of the doctor’s precious time (time IS money, we all know) and too much in fees to be paid by, say, Aetna.  Those consulting doctors need to max out the number of emails per day to keep the moolah flowing.  And any doctor valuing his income would certainly be mindful of expenses to be incurred by his insurance company employer.  Keep the cash coming; besides Aetna would eschew any two hour consultation required to actually look over medical records.

Click here to read of the California case where the insurance company doctor said he NEVER looked at patients’ records…that may or may not have been done by minions, those lesser paid nurses.

Profit and medicine should never have gotten  married.  Time for a divorce.  Nationalize drug companies, hospitals and medical organizations.  Then set some seriously powerful watchdogs over them to watch for the inevitable corruption and lying

Aetna recently lost a major lawsuit in Oklahoma, a very red state.  Seems even Republicans can’t bring themselves to opt for profit over life…when it comes down to it.  Maybe right ot life has some meaning after all.  Aetna will keep appealing this decision, of course.  All those Aetna lawyers’ fees are tax deductible so we taxpayers are subsidizing their legal battle to keep from spending money on actual patients.

SELLING ADDICTION TO DOCTORS AND PATIENTS

Review of book that traces America’s opioid tragedy.  The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are the stars of this on-going drama.  Your money and your life they say.  Sadly even doctors fell for the marketing.  Billions of dollars and billions of pills were made.