Health Care Providers Constantly Pass the Buck to Deny Patients Needed Care
The American health care industry revolves around a very lucrative scam: drugmakers, hospitals, and health insurance companies are constantly passing responsibility for denials of care to one another, in order to maximally gouge the public.
In politics, there is the so-called Rotating Villain problem, whereby Democrats constantly blame different bad guys for their party’s inaction. The health care industry uses similar tactics, perpetuating an ever worsening crisis and protecting its profits. (Hush Naidoo Jade Photography / Unsplash)
In politics, there is the so-called Rotating Villain problem, whereby Democrats constantly blame different bad guys for their party’s inaction. The health care industry uses similar tactics, perpetuating an ever worsening crisis — and preserving its own ever larger profits.
Indeed, insurers, drugmakers, and hospitals regularly take turns portraying each other as villains for driving up health care costs, all while they jointly bankroll propaganda campaigns to convince the public that the current predatory system must never be changed.
A new report from drugmakers’ top lobby group illustrates the misdirection. The jeremiad righteously attacks health insurance companies, slamming common health insurance industry ploys such as demanding prior authorizations for services and requiring patients to fail first on other therapies before they are allowed to try medicines prescribed by their doctors.
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