What insurance has done to our physicians in our country?

When did we stop following the Hippocratic Oath and began looking at human as dollars signs in the world of practicing medicine? If the government focus continues on rewriting the insurance regulations and practices, it better start looking at the medical profession as well. Since the insurance industry has turn the medical professions to be more concerned on how they will be paid rather then treating a six year old girl.

Yes, a family whom has been seeing this medical group known as Pediatric Associates for over two years will treat the other children in the family, but refuse to treat a six year old with the flu symptoms, in a time of H1N1 epidemic, simply because the Medicaid changed the primary doctor at the time of recertification for the six year old, and not the rest of the family.

It is a shame a Pediatric Associate Management Services, a Primary Care Physician office would deny to see a six year old with flu symptoms. When the doctor was approached directly, he only responded “I am sorry due to the insurance, there is nothing he can really do”. Aware of this problem with Medicaid, the doctor’s office refuses to treat their own patients. So a patient health and treatment is determined by the insurance PPO network arbitrary selected at recertification.

So if the insured with Medicaid cannot get access to care due to the inefficiency of the current healthcare distribution system, and a physician would refuse to examine a child who has been a patient for over two years due to insurance payment, during H1N1 flu season, we must wonder what insurance has done to our physicians in our country.

How can a physician refuse coverage to a six year old with flu systems? Makes you wonder if physicians are now just puppets to this healthcare monopoly, called insurance.

Where insurance CONTROLS the behavior of physicians and the oath to serve your patient is ignored.