Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/medical-debt-tool-kit-doctors
New toolkit helps doctors address patients’ financial needs – a role doctors say they feel thrust into amid worsening crisis
Archived version: web.archive.org/…/medical-debt-tool-kit-doctors
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Poor doctors are upset that they took an oath to help people
They’re upset they have to spend time fighting insurance companies cause every hour they spend doing that is one less hour they get to spend actually helping people
Which doctor’s are your referring to. Most doctors are able to pick & choose what insurance they take or ask for payment in advance. ER & other doctors don’t even have to deal with billing directly as it is a role the hospital admin takes on.
More like: Overworked, under staffed doctors have to add more to their work load because the insurance industry is aggressively taking advantage of the doctor’s patients.
I’m no greek scholar, but I don’t believe navigating a system of middle-man bean counters was what they had in mind.
Most doctors can pick & choose what insurance they take. Its the hospital administrators’ job to deal with billing, you know the form they ask you to sign once you’re all drugged up.
They’re upset that they’re being hamstrung by profitseeking algorithms and wage-slaves.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hate having to ask, but a lot of doctors will be, “you need x y z” and get frustrated when I’m just “I’ll do all of it…if my insurance covers it.” I am on the public plan. I have no money. I had one very condescendingly say my health is more important than money and just leave when I asked where I’m to get the money from when I had no job and had no way of doing debt.
I’m lucky my public plan is pretty good. But there are things it will not cover. Dental is a nightmare. Preventative is a nightmare. Surprisingly physical therapy is a go? Finding specialists is a nightmare because the phone line is just. They know nothing.