By personally liable, I don’t mean “their reputation is harmed”, I mean “forced to file for bankruptcy, and will be paying off the court imposed damages for the rest of their life”.
By professionally liable, I mean medical licenses being torn up, and their right to practice medicine being permanently revoked due to committing medical malpractice.
I mean, these people need to be medical doctors, that are treated as making a medical decision, with all the requirements and liabilities that come from that.
When Dr. Nick spends 1.2 seconds reviewing a patient’s file before issuing a denial, I’m proposing that being a life ruining decision for Dr. Nick.
If UHC can get Dr. Nick to reject claims for six months before he gets canned they'll be happy to set Dr. Nick up on a caribbean island for life after he declares bankruptcy - then all the other Dr. Nicks will be happy to throw their reputation in the fire for a cushy lifestyle.
The issue we've got here is that the company has an immense amount of power and we need to punish bad actors at a level appropriate to that power - instead of just going after the individual bad doctors that are replaceable and numerous (we should still go after the individuals though).
By personally liable, I don’t mean “their reputation is harmed”, I mean “forced to file for bankruptcy, and will be paying off the court imposed damages for the rest of their life”.
By professionally liable, I mean medical licenses being torn up, and their right to practice medicine being permanently revoked due to committing medical malpractice.
I mean, these people need to be medical doctors, that are treated as making a medical decision, with all the requirements and liabilities that come from that.
When Dr. Nick spends 1.2 seconds reviewing a patient’s file before issuing a denial, I’m proposing that being a life ruining decision for Dr. Nick.