the end bit left off how even if you’re at an in-network hospital, you can still be seen and treated by out-of-network doctors
i saw someone yesterday explaining that she had a broken ankle and the hospital had to wait on insurance because the doctor was in-network but the hospital where they had surgery rights wasn’t, and this rigmarole went on for so long that her ankle started to heal incorrectly and then the surgery took way longer
This guy is an MD influencer btw who has been criticizing the system for years, not just hopping on a trend
Love Glaucomflecken. Wish he wasn’t so lib about
but I understand why he is. He’s a total policy wonk when it comes to healthcare.He wasn’t as lib as I was expecting. He was basically like don’t do this, but I understand why people would do this.
total police wonk
What does this mean?
misspelled policy
I still dont understand what total policy wonk means
It means he has a kink about knowing in great detail all the technical aspects of a set of policies
So…part of his job?
I don’t know what his job is but being a policy wonk can be something people pay you for yeah
He’s an optomologist and also essentially a healthcare-focused comedian and communicator. So it makes sense that he has issues that are super niche that he thinks are immediately actionable and would improve people’s conditions.
god this is actually triggering for me after going through this recently, getting the fucking runaround NON-STOP while someone close to me is literally dying from her illness, the whole time being in utter disbelief that this is the way this shit “works”
What if you have a medical emergency that renders you unconscious and thus have no control over which hospital you go to?
that’s one of the many neat ways that you can get treated and then charged millions of dollars instead of the other neat thing where they just refuse to treat you to begin with because your insurance daddy said no.
they just refuse to treat you to begin with because your insurance daddy said no
This isn’t true, emergency rooms are required to provide care in a medical emergency
then you misunderstand me, i’m specifically distinguishing emergency rooms (medical emergency that charges you a million) from non-emergency but necessary medical intervention (insurance daddy says no, your ankle is supposed to be like that)
First thing that convinced me to support universal healthcare. No man’s tragedy should be another man’s lucky day.
“Too fucking bad”
Efficiencies of the free market
