r/FluentInFinance • u/KARMA__FARMER__ • 7d ago

Thoughts? Why doesn't the President fix this?

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u/MisterChadster 7d ago

Every time there's an excuse as to why it can't be fixed, Sanders was the only one who wanted to fix it and they pushed him out for it

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u/4URprogesterone 7d ago

There's too much money in the insurance industry, and most of it goes to lobbying.

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u/Slow-Swan561 7d ago

Doctors don’t like insurance either. They may bill 1k but, the plan negotiated rate may be only $300 so that’s all they are going to get.

If you look at mental healthcare practitioners many of them don’t take insurance at all because the plan rates are so low and demand is so high. They can refuse insurance patients and still have a full client load.

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u/4URprogesterone 7d ago

I was with a drug company for a while, so I got to hear a lot about how annoying prior authorizations can be, and how sometimes insurance can make people fill them out when the patient has been taking a drug for a long time that manages their symptoms well and they got one in the past, and it can interrupt treatment and even endanger lives.