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Covid Vaccine

Watch 60 minutes segment on bird flu that aired tonight. And before you dismiss it, know that it was critical of the Biden Administration’s slow response to it.
 
Watch 60 minutes segment on bird flu that aired tonight. And before you dismiss it, know that it was critical of the Biden Administration’s slow response to it.
wrong thread, dickh3ad.
 
Absolutely true, at least with a couple of physicians that I used to work with. The incentives were real.
Can confirm.
Our physicians here received them.
 
If you watch the segment, you’d understand why it’s relevant to Covid and another potential pandemic. Concerning stuff.
no linky, no watchy.
 
So much for the Hippocratic Oath.
In a perfect world, I would agree with that, but being a physician today isn't what it used to be. I worked for a very large health system that was controlled by an equally large insurance carrier. The physicians were constantly under pressure on wait times, number of patients seen and things like the number of vaccines given because that increased the profits for the mother company. Not saying it's right, but it is the reality of medicine today.
 
In a perfect world, I would agree with that, but being a physician today isn't what it used to be. I worked for a very large health system that was controlled by an equally large insurance carrier. The physicians were constantly under pressure on wait times, number of patients seen and things like the number of vaccines given because that increased the profits for the mother company. Not saying it's right, but it is the reality of medicine today.
I sorta agree with this.
This is the case more times than not, but if you do your due diligence, you can find the doctors in the large system that don't tow the company line and/or aren't in it solely for kickbacks and paychecks.
I work for one of these systems. More than a dozen hospitals and over 3 thousand doctors, not to mention mid-levels.
I had to find a new PCP recently and it took me quite a few visits within our system, and tapdancing around the landmines, to find one that's willing to buck the system and actually treat the patient.
And DOs and more likely to be these types than MDs, FYI.
 
I sorta agree with this.
This is the case more times than not, but if you do your due diligence, you can find the doctors in the large system that don't tow the company line and/or aren't in it solely for kickbacks and paychecks.
I work for one of these systems. More than a dozen hospitals and over 3 thousand doctors, not to mention mid-levels.
I had to find a new PCP recently and it took me quite a few visits within our system, and tapdancing around the landmines, to find one that's willing to buck the system and actually treat the patient.
And DOs and more likely to be these types than MDs, FYI.
I'm going to make it a practice now to only go to the doctor if I need a cast or need my appendix removed or something along those lines. Heck I can make my own cast. This business of a pill for this and then you need a pill to fix what the first pill screwed up, and so on is no way to go through life. I'm not getting on that pathway.
 
In a perfect world, I would agree with that, but being a physician today isn't what it used to be. I worked for a very large health system that was controlled by an equally large insurance carrier. The physicians were constantly under pressure on wait times, number of patients seen and things like the number of vaccines given because that increased the profits for the mother company. Not saying it's right, but it is the reality of medicine today.
It's not about health, it's about maximum profit.

Folks who want better than maximum profit healthcare need to away from the government/insurance funded medical care because it's provides suboptimal health care for individuals.

It's like they put the Flint water system experts in charge of US medicine.
 
I sorta agree with this.
This is the case more times than not, but if you do your due diligence, you can find the doctors in the large system that don't tow the company line and/or aren't in it solely for kickbacks and paychecks.
I work for one of these systems. More than a dozen hospitals and over 3 thousand doctors, not to mention mid-levels.
I had to find a new PCP recently and it took me quite a few visits within our system, and tapdancing around the landmines, to find one that's willing to buck the system and actually treat the patient.
And DOs and more likely to be these types than MDs, FYI.
I look at physicians going the way of the mom and pop grocery stores and pharmacies.
Big business, in this case insurance companies, now control them with little options left for them.
Want hospital privileges, toe the line.
 
I look at physicians going the way of the mom and pop grocery stores and pharmacies.
Big business, in this case insurance companies, now control them with little options left for them.
Want hospital privileges, toe the line.
There is very little concern for people's health in the medical system now.
 
If you watch the segment, you’d understand why it’s relevant to Covid and another potential pandemic. Concerning stuff.

Yeah yeah, concerning stuff. You guys have a never ending agenda of concerning stuff.

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I look at physicians going the way of the mom and pop grocery stores and pharmacies.
Big business, in this case insurance companies, now control them with little options left for them.
Want hospital privileges, toe the line.
As I work in the contracting department of my hospital system, I can’t agree with this wholeheartedly.
The real damage by insurance carriers is at the federal level with lobbyists and laws.
Hospitals and doctors simply negotiate rates with contracted insurance carriers.
And that in of itself is a ridiculous endless circle.
 
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