Established in 1812, The New England Journal of Medicine represents the heart and central nervous system of the liberal academic medical establishment in the United States. With an enviable track record of publishing landmark research articles, The Journal has the largest number of paid subscribers among physicians of any medical journal, is regularly cited in the consumer media as the bible of medicine, and is closely followed by the investment community seeking information on trends and medical breakthroughs. For physician authors, it is the most difficult medical journal in which to be published in the Western world. It has class, high standards, and impeccable credentials.
Since The Journal tends to be liberal and reflect the views of Eastern intellectuals, it should come as no surprise that it frowns on the tactics of the conservative, fast-growing, for-profit managed care industry. The precedent for its anti-managed care stance was set in the early 1980s, when then-Editor-in-Chief Arnold S. Relman, MD, warned of the dangers of the profit-making “medical industrial complex.”
On April 18, The Journal started a new phase in this campaign by publishing a “Sounding Board” article by Malik Hasan, MD, often portrayed, along with Rick Scott, CEO of Columbia/HCA, as a champion of for-profit managed care medicine. In his hard-hitting piece, titled “Let’s End The NonProfit Charade,” Hasan, president and CEO of Health Systems International, an HMO in Pueblo, Colo., says there is no place for nonprofit organizations in operating competitive health plans and that such plans ought to be relegated to “the provision of care for the indigent, medical education, and the development of certain experimental procedures that are not ready to enter the mainstream of medicine.”
A War of Words
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Ok, so we have some doctors mad, all applicants attorneys mad, and also Senator, which I use the term loosely, Alarcon upset. My best judgement is that the reforms are working as planned.
I can’t shed a tear for these doctors and attorneys losing their gravy train. No longer can you do $800 tests on each nerve in a finger and then charge $8000 to test for CT.
Compman, we need to meet in the middle to solve the problems with the comp system. I hope you never have to enter the system for a severe disabling injury, but truthfully, if that did occur, would you like to have an adjuster handling your case that feels like you do? I bet you would be screaming!
You must believe everything you hear and read from the CAAA. It would be best if you actually researched some of the crap that they are spewing. They have now filed their 2nd lawsuit claiming damages because of the new reforms, but low and behold, not ONE injured employee has had his case settled yet under the new guidelines. It is amazing how they can claim irrepreble harm to injured workers when they don’t even have a case closed yet. BTW, the first lawsuit was thrown out for the very reason and the 2nd one will be thrown out as well I am sure. I have been doing comp for many years now and have seen the abuses that go on. I am a strong believer that an injured worker should be treated fairly, but what has happened in the system is chronic abuse by both the dr’s, attorney’s and “not really injured” workers.
Of course this is going to hurt a little, but like they say, no pain, no gain.
A little less attention to the middle fingers and alot more attention to the Hippocratic Oath, MD’s. Let me not forget and voice alot More Shut the hell up of my Neurological, Orthopedic major psychosomatic symtoms…….say Dr. Moby Dick (Arthur Lewis Messinger), Cal-Comp Insurance Company appointed finger jobs. You know as much as Kate Bennett was in on my claim, Suzanne Kairouani & JoAnn Gamoris claims Examiner’s have exclusive claim to Best of ******* service provider contacts. Here’s a thought maybe our Health System should also consider a U-Turn when it comes to the likes of QualMeds/HSI/FHC/FHS/Cal-Comps/Healthnet’s Dr. Milik Hasan and his Saudi Royal connection running our Healthcare. Should also re-check the like’s of Pacificare, Fhp and their switching of state domicile to qualify as a worker’s compensation carrier in 1995. Not back in Colorado are ya? Medi-Cal DOES not cover needed medical services’ at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnasota Jay Gellert & Walter Kainz. (Healthnet). My Neurological & Orthopedic conditions are REAL, not SUM imaginary Diagnosis, My real MD’s made up….dumb *****.
Dear Compman,
What complady writes is true. While you may have been in the insurance company for years you are not a doctor. May god help you if you ever get injured. Employers stall medical care don’t pay you on time, so they starve you out and eventually you end up insane and homeless or committ suicide. Employers attorneys get paid up front so they love to chalk up billable hours at $200.00’s per hour and delay court proceedures to make more money while the worman comp attorneys representing the injured worker do not get a penny until the case is settled which may take anywhere from 2 to 5 years down the road and some cases drag out even longer. You need to take a class in the real world and look at what is really going on and realize it is not the worker who is the fraud but the insurance companies and the employer who do not want to pay for medical for the injured worker.
Established in 1812, The New England Journal of Medicine represents the heart and central nervous system of the liberal academic medical establishment in the United States. With an enviable track record of publishing landmark research articles, The Journal has the largest number of paid subscribers among physicians of any medical journal, is regularly cited in the consumer media as the bible of medicine, and is closely followed by the investment community seeking information on trends and medical breakthroughs. For physician authors, it is the most difficult medical journal in which to be published in the Western world. It has class, high standards, and impeccable credentials.
Since The Journal tends to be liberal and reflect the views of Eastern intellectuals, it should come as no surprise that it frowns on the tactics of the conservative, fast-growing, for-profit managed care industry. The precedent for its anti-managed care stance was set in the early 1980s, when then-Editor-in-Chief Arnold S. Relman, MD, warned of the dangers of the profit-making “medical industrial complex.”
On April 18, The Journal started a new phase in this campaign by publishing a “Sounding Board” article by Malik Hasan, MD, often portrayed, along with Rick Scott, CEO of Columbia/HCA, as a champion of for-profit managed care medicine. In his hard-hitting piece, titled “Let’s End The NonProfit Charade,” Hasan, president and CEO of Health Systems International, an HMO in Pueblo, Colo., says there is no place for nonprofit organizations in operating competitive health plans and that such plans ought to be relegated to “the provision of care for the indigent, medical education, and the development of certain experimental procedures that are not ready to enter the mainstream of medicine.”
A War of Words
In the same ….
Ok, so we have some doctors mad, all applicants attorneys mad, and also Senator, which I use the term loosely, Alarcon upset. My best judgement is that the reforms are working as planned.
I can’t shed a tear for these doctors and attorneys losing their gravy train. No longer can you do $800 tests on each nerve in a finger and then charge $8000 to test for CT.
Compman, we need to meet in the middle to solve the problems with the comp system. I hope you never have to enter the system for a severe disabling injury, but truthfully, if that did occur, would you like to have an adjuster handling your case that feels like you do? I bet you would be screaming!
CompLady:
You must believe everything you hear and read from the CAAA. It would be best if you actually researched some of the crap that they are spewing. They have now filed their 2nd lawsuit claiming damages because of the new reforms, but low and behold, not ONE injured employee has had his case settled yet under the new guidelines. It is amazing how they can claim irrepreble harm to injured workers when they don’t even have a case closed yet. BTW, the first lawsuit was thrown out for the very reason and the 2nd one will be thrown out as well I am sure. I have been doing comp for many years now and have seen the abuses that go on. I am a strong believer that an injured worker should be treated fairly, but what has happened in the system is chronic abuse by both the dr’s, attorney’s and “not really injured” workers.
Of course this is going to hurt a little, but like they say, no pain, no gain.
A little less attention to the middle fingers and alot more attention to the Hippocratic Oath, MD’s. Let me not forget and voice alot More Shut the hell up of my Neurological, Orthopedic major psychosomatic symtoms…….say Dr. Moby Dick (Arthur Lewis Messinger), Cal-Comp Insurance Company appointed finger jobs. You know as much as Kate Bennett was in on my claim, Suzanne Kairouani & JoAnn Gamoris claims Examiner’s have exclusive claim to Best of ******* service provider contacts. Here’s a thought maybe our Health System should also consider a U-Turn when it comes to the likes of QualMeds/HSI/FHC/FHS/Cal-Comps/Healthnet’s Dr. Milik Hasan and his Saudi Royal connection running our Healthcare. Should also re-check the like’s of Pacificare, Fhp and their switching of state domicile to qualify as a worker’s compensation carrier in 1995. Not back in Colorado are ya? Medi-Cal DOES not cover needed medical services’ at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnasota Jay Gellert & Walter Kainz. (Healthnet). My Neurological & Orthopedic conditions are REAL, not SUM imaginary Diagnosis, My real MD’s made up….dumb *****.
CA has way more liberal WC laws & benefits than NC.
He’s in for a rude awakening if he thinks the NC worker’s comp system is more liberal than CA.
More likely he’s moving because even a medical doctor can’t afford to live in Norhtern CA anymore.
Try billing “heat treatments” or “therapeutic massage” in NC and see how they compare to CA.
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Sharoon:
Go back to DU where you belong and take your tin foil hat with you.
Dear Compman,
What complady writes is true. While you may have been in the insurance company for years you are not a doctor. May god help you if you ever get injured. Employers stall medical care don’t pay you on time, so they starve you out and eventually you end up insane and homeless or committ suicide. Employers attorneys get paid up front so they love to chalk up billable hours at $200.00’s per hour and delay court proceedures to make more money while the worman comp attorneys representing the injured worker do not get a penny until the case is settled which may take anywhere from 2 to 5 years down the road and some cases drag out even longer. You need to take a class in the real world and look at what is really going on and realize it is not the worker who is the fraud but the insurance companies and the employer who do not want to pay for medical for the injured worker.