See this great, multipart series from the Toledo Blade; from part one, a survey of doctors:
• Ninety-five percent of respondents said insurers interfered with decisions about prescriptions, 91 percent with testing, 74 percent with referrals, and 69 percent with hospitalization decisions.
• Eighty-six percent said interference compromised patient care, 76 percent said it adversely affected their patients, and 65 percent said they were unable to successfully protest denials.
• Seventy percent noted they experience interference at least once a week, with 92 percent answering that interference increased during the past five years.
• Fourteen percent believed interference from an insurer had contributed to the death or serious injury of a patient.
So, if you're insured, that still doesn't mean you're safe, because the insurance companies have taken your medical care out of your doctor's hands.
And that's why doctors are for single payer; they got into medicine to save lives, not to work for the inscos.
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Had to tinker with that one, DCB
The Blade deserves some hits for that.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
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thanks for your editing
I just do copy and paste, yours is a great improvement.
I have to say that I feel much better since I started single payer blogging and ceased to care about the Presidential race.
I can't wait to go cold turkey myself
After the convention.
We saved a reader $1000!
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi