Why Some Doctors Only Take Cash
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2017-04-23

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This week we discuss the topic of healthcare reform.  If one presumes that the goal of the healthcare system in the United States is, or ought to be, the provision of affordable health care for those in need, then the question becomes: “How do we accomplish this?” Health care in the USA is a vast, complex, multilayered system. The players range from individuals seeking health care as patients, individuals trying to provide health care as physicians, nurses, Insurance companies and their staff, pharmaceutical companies and their staff, outpatient clinics, hospitals, the federal government, and state governments.  This is a lot of people indeed, with no single goal to work towards, or plan of action to follow.  Almost everyone thinks changes are needed but almost no one agrees on what those changes are and how they should be instituted.

There is no universal or even general agreement among all these vested entities about how to proceed. Most players seem to want to control the other players while remaining uncontrolled in turn. Everyone thinks their sacred cow should remain sacrosanct and the others should just realize that change needs to come for them.

In the midst of all this storm and agitation and gamesmanship the player that seems to have the least leverage or the fewest chips to play, is the individual patient and their families. Health Care seems to be done to them as a result of the decisions and agendas of all the other players. Politicians, corporations, federal agencies, big pharma, the insurance industry and hospitals all have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo.