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Want to hear something crazier? They don’t even have doctors. Non doctors are telling your doctor what is medically necessary.
I had an issue with my foot and the doctor requested an MRI as an ultrasound wouldn't show them anything they needed to see. The fucking insurance company says no, do the ultrasound... So I paid for a fucking useless ultrasound and then they refused to move forward with anything else... The issue kinda went away thankfully but there's still something odd with my foot that I guess I just won't fix until I can pay completely out of pocket.
I'm so fucking happy that at least $1,200 monthly is taken out of my potential pay to cover a fucking useless insurance scam, because remember even if your employer "pays" it's factored into your total compensation so you're still the one paying.
I never understand why so many people assume insurance is "free" from the employer or that they pay 0-1000 per week/month. What we see is the tip of the iceberg. Insurance companies are perfectly lucrative and they pay tons and TONS of money to workers that make sure they make as much as possible.
80% of premium revenues must be spent on treatment, the other 20% is what they have to profit off of. If they don't spend 80% of the premiums on treatment they MUST refund excess earnings. See: https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-review/
This means if they took in 100 billion in premiums in a year, they MUST spend 80 billion dollars on treatments. The 20 billion left over is where they can make money. So they will make sure 4/5ths of everything they make goes into treatment so they never give refunds and they maximize potential profits. If they can convince companies to raise premiums 10% next year, costs will rise 10%, profits will rise 10%. It's so obviously designed to raise the cost of premiums and treatments at the expense of all else it's insane.
They also don't spend a dime over 80% of what they make if they can help it. There's where claim rejections come in. They have mathematicians figuring out the ideal numbers and those guys make stupid amounts of money.
I'll do you one worse. Sometimes, they do have doctors. In cases where people are trying to get coverage, especially for a severe workplace injury with lifetime effects, the insurance company will send you to a doctor who barely passed med school. They'll have you do a "physical" that's basically turn your head and cough. Then they write up a report that says you don't need coverage.
Since they are technically a licensed doctor, this is still considered "expert" opinion in court (if it comes to that). The doctors involved can make way more money at this then they can working their mediocre asses in any real capacity.