02/02/2024
I don't want to be angry with medicine anymore. It's hard to find a path out of the problem when pharmacy benefit managers and insurance companies make up their own new mini electronic health records for prior authorizations that require us to then document all over again our patient's medical history after we already faxed in the medical labs and answered the questions of the barely medically literate person on the insurance company prior authorizations automated call center so we can get so called authorizations 2 weeks after we send a prescription for drugs that simply work.
At what point does the relentless siege of complete nonsense in our so-called insurance system finally get identified as the source of a significant portion of our collective frustrations of dealing with pointless bureaucracy in this country? How much longer will we all tolerate it?
All of this results in money being paid by employers for salaries for employees who have a single job of delaying care for their employees while frustrating those who are only doing what was asked of them when their employee came to a medical clinic for assistance. Their request for help leads to our pleading to let us help them. It doesn't make any sense.
