This was worth the click A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to it through an open doorway, but the doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. The man asks if he can ever go through, and the doorkeeper says it is possible "but not now". The man waits by the door for years, bribing the doorkeeper with everything he has. The doorkeeper accepts the bribes, but tells…
A good quote, but where did you see it?
Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter
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Re: Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doctors are paid the same as software engineers for a job that is like 10x as hard. MBA hospital administrators have greed as their official main job responsibility.
> Doctors are paid the same as software engineers The average physician salary in 2023 is $352K. I wouldn't say that.
Are salaries the only source of income that they derive from the medical industry? My doctor is a part owner of his provider network which also is the insurer.
Re: Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Doctors are paid the same as software engineers The average physician salary in 2023 is $352K. I wouldn't say that.
Are salaries the only source of income that they derive from the medical industry? My doctor is a part owner of his provider network which also is the insurer.
Don't even start me on diagnostic imaging.
The big DI manufacturers have consulting arms that will help physicians with financing to buy CTs, MRI, PET, that will help them obtain Certificates of Need.
And having a hard time finding it now, but physicians who own a share in a DI lab tend to refer their patients for imaging far more generously than those who don't...
Re: Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the AMA does constrain the number of doctors in the US so that supply and demand part is on them.
Talk to any doctor about the priorities of the MBA-holding decision-makers at their hospitals.
Go and talk to a doctor about the upcoming reimbursement cuts by Medicare - 3.36% this upcoming fiscal year.
Then compare how much Medicare compensates doctors compared to compensation in other countries.
Re: Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter
#65Metamorphosis was always particularly upsetting to read. Someone loses their ability to produce economic value and is portrayed as a literal insect
It reminds me of a cousin of mine who was struggling through some drugs and mental issues, hearing immediate family make a bunch of shitty remarks about him
Kafka is one of those authors that I try not to read because I'd prefer to have a rosier picture of human nature
Re: Franz Kafka was a healthcare claims administrator and insurance underwriter
#66Not even Kafka got to write full time. Even the famous artists had to work a job and yet we still see posts every day about how greedy the art industries are
Kafka was not a famous writer at all or got rich due to his writing.
And he asked a friend to destroy all of his writings after his death.