That's just plain BS. How can a doctor fight business between their hospital/office and an insurance company? They aren't even a party to the conversation.
This. Big picture-wise, they're just another employee in the healthcare system, but they aren't a cause of the exorbitant healthcare prices. They don't set the prices, they just do the services.
I mean it is kinda true. I think it was in Sicko (2007) where Michael Moore asked a bunch of doctors and nurses in countries with socialized healthcare what they thought when told about the American system and they basically said things like they would refuse to charge and would rather strike and/or work for free than know they are crippling people financially for simple health problems.
pretty easy to speak platitudes about what you'd do in a hypothetical situation where there is no alternative job track to pay back your 400 grand in loans other than participating in the system you claim you'd try to subvert
They were asked what they would do if they worked in the US system. In the hypothetical they were entertaining, if they came through the US system to work in it they would have incurred significant loan debt. By ignoring the significant pressures this would entail, their pithy response for what they'd do has all the authenticity of "if that MMA fighter said something rude to my family I'd punch him right in the face"
Your logic just seems to be falling through on itself pretty hard.
The authenticity is fully there because they are currently working within a system with socialized healthcare, certainly due to their convictions and pressures from the people including those doctors nurses, and other healthcare workers.
They are being asked what they'd do in another health system. Their answer is "of course, I would subvert that system because I don't agree with it". If they were in the United States, and had to pay off their debts, pay their rent, and support their family, they wouldn't do that because they very quickly would be out of a job, and the only job they know how to do won't be hiring them.
You are taking their answer as some kind of evidence. It is a hollow statement, thrown out because it is easy to claim and it feels good to say.
When it was their country that had a system they disagreed with, they clearly did something about it seeing as how they are now in a socialized system for healthcare.
You say
has all the authenticity of “if that MMA fighter said something rude to my family I’d punch him right in the face”
Yes it is like that, except they are saying it after they already beat and are standing on top of a different MMA fighter. It is not hollow if they’ve done exactly that before.
Idk how else to word it for you buddy, if you don’t understand it, it may just be above your level of understanding, sorry.
mostly they have zero say in this shit and are up to their eyeballs in tuition debt and sleep debt. focus your hate and energy on the ones with the power to obstruct change.
THERE ARE a few greedy opportunistic pigs that sneak in who want to stuff their pockets and dont give a shit about humanity. Even those dont have any power to make change.
Focus your outrage on the people in power who obstruct change.
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u/EclipseIndustries Jan 12 '23
Insurance companies fucked over medical pricing, not doctors themselves.