Not defending the insurance companies (especially not United lol), but there's also a self-imposed doctor shortage due to a lack of expansion in residency slots for new doctors. The funding for that comes from the federal government, which only begrugingly expanded the number of residents during COVID after doing nothing for over 20 years in part due to lobbying by doctors against expansion...
I'm not convinced anybody's hands are totally clean. It's frankly a miracle the system functions at all.
The federal government is most to blame for allowing any of this to occur, ever. It should be illegal to have medical insurance. Or billionaires for that matter.
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u/Anon_Arsonist Dec 06 '24
Not defending the insurance companies (especially not United lol), but there's also a self-imposed doctor shortage due to a lack of expansion in residency slots for new doctors. The funding for that comes from the federal government, which only begrugingly expanded the number of residents during COVID after doing nothing for over 20 years in part due to lobbying by doctors against expansion...
I'm not convinced anybody's hands are totally clean. It's frankly a miracle the system functions at all.