More on healthcare: A Surgeon Asks About the Direction of the Future

Yesterday I wrote this phrase: "heathen healthcare insurance companies."
I meant it.

Dr. Robert Sowell, a surgeon who bravely terminated every private insurance company that required authorizations for services (which greatly influences what treatment a physican may administer to a patient), denials, and also stipulates how much they will pay,  shares his thoughts in General Surgery News.
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"About nine years ago, I made the conscious, albeit impulsive decision to resign from every private insurance contract. I believed then, and still believe today, that these contracts, with their preauthorizations and denials of payment, were indirectly and inappropriately influencing a wide variety of medical decisions. Plus, under these contracts I had no say in determining what the actual value of my services should be. I was essentially an employee of the insurance companies because they were the ones who paid me, according to their fee schedules."