Health care problems

[BreakfastSurreal]

dude....just want to say that in the past year I've had about 4 or 5 claims NOT paid...and 1 was a pretty large dollar amount one. Insurance will try to NOT pay...half the time they are supposed to and just try to get away with it, and you as the consumer who pays them has to call them and bitch and complain and jump through hoops to get them to pay your claim. This has been happening more and more these days.

 

[Tim]

If you think that if it came down to protecting the insurer or their bottom line that they would put you over profit, you are sadly mistaken. They are in the business to make money, not help people. The insurance companies do not take the Hippocratic oath.

 

[Tim]

The Hippocratic Oath

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva]I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
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[thatguyjeff]

If you think that if it came down to protecting the insurer or their bottom line that they would put you over profit, you are sadly mistaken. They are in the business to make money, not help people. The insurance companies do not take the Hippocratic oath.

Why would anyone but a doctor take that oath? That's like saying I'm a bad person because I don't take the oath of office of POTUS.

 

[Alien Allen]

typical blame game. I got screwed so the whole system is bad.

You still do not get it.

It is insurance. Not all insurance companies screw everybody. Frankly it is the opposite. I have never had a claim denied.

You get what you pay for. If you deal with a shitty company to save a few bucks you get exactly what you paid for.

Sure there are exceptions. But you all paint it as all insurance companies are bad.