HMOs are to blame. HMOs have become a favorite target of blame for the current state of affairs. Reading a letter from a 34-year old father who was denied a pancreas transplant despite an appeal, Moore was inspired to stage a mock funeral at the Humana corporate headquarters and invited the corporate executives to attend. Six days after Moore's visit, the patient received approval for the transplant. Managed care companies emerged to solve the problem of excessive and spiraling healthcare costs, promising to assure wider access to diagnostic tests and treatment at reasonable rates.
Physicians are to blame.
An emergency physician described the following incident in our local newspaper. He was attempting to establish phone contact with another doctor, who had been assigned to authorize and provide ongoing care for an emergency room patient. Presumably his caseload and contractual pressures were just too burdensome to care for one more patient. Nurses are to blame. Now even nurses are being blamed for contributing to the problems in healthcare.