Reply #219: Did you know...

[wolfgangmo]

...That the average doctor in the US see patients for 35 hours a week and then spends another 35 hours a week getting treatment approved or paid for. Yup - 50% off their time is spend just trying to get their patients treated or themselved paid.

...That the average doctor in the US has 3 employees (or a service with 3 employees) whose only job is to go head to head with all the employees that the insurance companies devote to denying treatment to patients and payments to doctors. This raises the overhead costs of doctors drastically for no good reason which in turn is a cost passed directly on to patients in the form of higher premiums, deductables and cash pay prices.

...That US doctors pay huge malpractice premiums. No other country has this problem because the largest cost of a malpractice case is ongoing medical care which is not a factor in any country with universal coverage or single payer.

...That Doctors in Canada have none of these issues?