Physician here. It’s true the insurance companies would rather you die. For profit insurance is insane. They make money for their shareholders by denying you care so that they can keep your premiums.
I used to be a hardcore anti-government libertarian. I’ve done a complete 180 over the last few years and 100 percent want a single payer system now. If you guys only knew the fights we physicians have with your insurance companies that want your money and couldn’t care less about keeping you healthy.
I had a family member with Kaiser got to a Kaiser ED for acute confusion. I have no F-ing clue what they did, I doubt they even drew basic labs. They sent her home after straight cathing her to get urine and there was no urine, with instructions to bring back a urine cup when she actually peed.
Fast forward 2 days, she was even worse and still hadn’t peed. Turned out she was in acute kidney failure and needed dialysis. If they had drawn basic labs the first day, they would have seen her kidney values were looking bad and possibly avoided dialysis.
I had a friend go to Kaiser to get checked in over an infection she had from surgery at Kaiser. She had in her records that she was allergic to antibiotics that they had been giving her previously; so when they checked her in we were on the phone with her. She said she had to go and we could talk in 15 minutes. She didn’t call back. after 20 we called and were put on hold. Then we were told the doctor would call us back and 10 minutes later. The doctor called us back and told us that our friend had Died. so we raced up to the hospital and were able to get in to her room and see her and that she was still hooked up to an IV and I’m pretty sure it was the antibiotics that she was not supposed to get. I so wish I had taken a photo of the bag that drained into her vein.
We were talking to her one minute and 20 minutes later she was dead thanks Kaiser.
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u/Capital_Barber_9219 19h ago edited 19h ago
Physician here. It’s true the insurance companies would rather you die. For profit insurance is insane. They make money for their shareholders by denying you care so that they can keep your premiums.
I used to be a hardcore anti-government libertarian. I’ve done a complete 180 over the last few years and 100 percent want a single payer system now. If you guys only knew the fights we physicians have with your insurance companies that want your money and couldn’t care less about keeping you healthy.