Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
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#2> For complex health care problems, I recommend hiring a consultant to provide administrative (not medical!) guidance.
This is called a patient advocate. Think of them as your healthcare guardian.
Sometimes you hire one, sometimes one will be assigned to you in more progressive healthcare systems. If you are fighting a chronic or potentially lethal disease, I highly recommend one.
Edit: Your patient advocate is usually covered by insurance if they work for the hospital or the insurance company, but not if you hire them directly. Take that for what you will.
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#3"There is, in fact, no system. There are systems, but mostly they don’t talk to each other. I have to do that."
That's something I have noticed too. My girlfriend had to visit several doctors for a problem. One was confused about the notes of the other doctor so I proposed to call and figure it out together. The doctor seemed really perplexed about this suggestion and instead ordered the same series of tests again.
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#4> For complex health care problems, I recommend hiring a consultant to provide administrative (not medical!) guidance. This is called a patient advocate. Think of them as your healthcare guardian. Sometimes you hire one, sometimes one will be assigned to you in more progressive healthcare systems. If you are fighting a chronic or potentially lethal disease, I highly recommend one. Edit: Your patient advocate is usual…
Sounds like you need patient advocate insurance. I wish I were trolling.
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#5For-profit healthcare is a crime against humanity.
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#6> For complex health care problems, I recommend hiring a consultant to provide administrative (not medical!) guidance. This is called a patient advocate. Think of them as your healthcare guardian. Sometimes you hire one, sometimes one will be assigned to you in more progressive healthcare systems. If you are fighting a chronic or potentially lethal disease, I highly recommend one. Edit: Your patient advocate is usual…
Does American insurance cover this? I have inquired about something like this before when I was getting conflicting diagnoses and treatment plans. Everyone I asked (at my insurance company) acted like they didn’t know what I was talking about. I did not size the phrase “patient advocate” but if one were available, I think my need for them would have been clear.
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#7> For complex health care problems, I recommend hiring a consultant to provide administrative (not medical!) guidance. This is called a patient advocate. Think of them as your healthcare guardian. Sometimes you hire one, sometimes one will be assigned to you in more progressive healthcare systems. If you are fighting a chronic or potentially lethal disease, I highly recommend one. Edit: Your patient advocate is usual…
Sounds like you need patient advocate insurance. I wish I were trolling.
Because medical insurance itself has worked so well for us.
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#8It's amazing that someone can go through this and come to the conclusion, at the end, that the solution is that this is a business opportunity that would make a lot of money if someone could just make it more efficient. Trying to make money off of healthcare is exactly how we have gotten the absolute mess that is the American medical system. All the incredibly complex rules exist so that health insurance companies can elect _not_ to pay for things that were deemed necessary by a medical professional. If insurance companies would be willing to pay for the services that were needed, there would be no 1600 page rule books. Of course, a system that actually paid for the care that people needed wouldn't be so obscenely profitable for them, and so they lobby massively against it.
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#9It's amazing that someone can go through this and come to the conclusion, at the end, that the solution is that this is a business opportunity that would make a lot of money if someone could just make it more efficient. Trying to make money off of healthcare is exactly how we have gotten the absolute mess that is the American medical system. All the incredibly complex rules exist so that health insurance companies ca…
It isn't profit-seeking what makes healthcare what it is. Its the incredibly burdensome regulation and restrictions.
If profit-seeking destroyed markets for profit, we would all be starving.
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#10"There is, in fact, no system. There are systems, but mostly they don’t talk to each other. I have to do that." That's something I have noticed too. My girlfriend had to visit several doctors for a problem. One was confused about the notes of the other doctor so I proposed to call and figure it out together. The doctor seemed really perplexed about this suggestion and instead ordered the same series of tests again.
Because ordering a redundant set of tests generates revenue. Just consulting another doctor wastes both of their time better spent ordering up redundant tests and quickly moving on to the next victim that can have tests ordered.