A very interesting survey was conducted, doctors want to leave the medical industry because of insurers red tape.
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative.
The survey, released this week by the Physicians’ Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find the reasons for an identified exodus among family doctors and internists, widely known as the backbone of the health industry.
[...]Of the 12,000 respondents, 49 percent said they’d consider leaving medicine. Many said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there’s too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.
So, insurers are a big problem, not just for patients but for the doctors as well. Perhaps these doctors should join the growing niche of concierge doctors that do not accept insurance at all. As we are learning, doctors and patients fare better under a system of no insurance.
Doctors are a little late to the party. When it was working well on the dollar side for them, no complaints. Younger ones have more sensitivity to how the system has not worked for everyday people for a long, long time.
There is so much work to be done to undo all the insurance damage done over the last 25 years. Though I’ll probably not be around to see hoped-for big changes, my hope is there’s more I can do for my children’s and grandchildren’s futures. Now that things are so dreadful there’s hope for HR 676, maybe?