PSST. Do You Want To Be A Doctor Without Going To Medical School?
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Want to be a nurse without having to study for years? Want to be in the thick of life and death issues without the messy blood and guts?
Work for the healthcare insurance industry.
That’s right. Barrel right through those pesky medical and nursing education and practice requirements. Forget about licensure. Codes of ethics? Fuggeddaboudit.
Instead, reap unlimited profits! Work bankers’ hours. Take leisurely, uninterrupted vacations. Enjoy a regular work schedule.
Complaints? Put in place a tedious, lengthy appeals process.
Wear them down, wear them out, and strip off the high cost “covered lives” ones. Covered lives - isn’t that a joke? More like exposed and hanging on the edge of a cliff.
Market your policies to employers that hire only healthy, young and low-health user employees. Squeeze every dollar from the reimbursement to physicians and therapists. Make the claims process cumbersome - and hope that physicians’ offices can’t keep up with your changing demands. Even more profits for you to keep!
And who says the U.S. healthcare system isn’t the best in the world?
Free market, baby. Yeah.
March 4th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I do work for one of the largest health insurance companies in the U.S. I’m an IT contractor, after many years suffering through outsourcing, layoffs, etc. The contracting agency doesn’t have health insurance, though (as most don’t).
Anyway, you’re right. The waste here is unbelievable. I’ve never worked anywhere with so much money to throw around.
About 35% of the staff are contractors. No health insurance, even here.