This is why it makes no sense to have doctors and nurses waste time battling insurance companies over treatments, and hospitals over staffing. Their time is indeed too valuable.
This is exactly why we should simply just expand medicare to be an option for everyone. If it's good enough for everyone over 65, it's good enough for everyone under it too. I'm ok with paying a reasonable premium to have access to the largest insurance network in the nation.
Simply? It is not so simple. Medicare reimbursement rates are way below commercial rates and hospitals wouldn't survive just from medicare reimbursement alone.
Let's stop trying to come up with "simple" solutions to the healthcare catastrophe in the US because the reality is more complex.
So raise the reimbursement rates to the point where hospitals can survive, or cut the fat. See? Simple.
Every time someone makes an argument like this, it's always to say that somehow, medical treatment in the USA is special compared to other countries. We couldn't possibly have universal healthcare work here. Please.
