Medical care in the US. Why does it feel like I’m at a scummy used car lot half the time?

[Anonymous]

I get tests done that feel like upsells.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get tests done that feel like upsells.

Yeah, then they go over what the insurance covers. You asked for a standard physical, because your job tells you to do it for their benefits package. They know they go over and give tests that aren't covered, they don't tell you then you get the bill. Then you go in to get the results, they charge you again, and they try to prescribe some bogus blood pressure medications. I go home and test my blood pressure with a cuff, and they just measured the blood pressure wrong, I get consistently normal blood pressure. What about your low this and high that do want the medication now? Then they try to schedule more monitoring visits.

[Anonymous]

Weird. I was misdiagnosed for years. I know of two people who had doctors prescribe medication that had warnings, which were ignored/missed and ended up destroying these two people’s lives. The healthcare system is sh*t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I was misdiagnosed for years. I know of two people who had doctors prescribe medication that had warnings, which were ignored/missed and ended up destroying these two people’s lives. The healthcare system is sh*t.

Clarification: Weird as in upselling hasn’t been an issue but incompetence has!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I was misdiagnosed for years. I know of two people who had doctors prescribe medication that had warnings, which were ignored/missed and ended up destroying these two people’s lives. The healthcare system is sh*t.

Clarification: Weird as in upselling hasn’t been an issue but incompetence has!

Other Poster here. I'm pretty sure I knew they were taking the money on purpose.

[Anonymous]

It's a conflict of interest. The person who decides whether a patient needs a test is the same one who profits from said test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a conflict of interest. The person who decides whether a patient needs a test is the same one who profits from said test.

It doesn't have to be that way.

[Anonymous]

Imagine buying a car and not knowing how much it will cost until 6 weeks later.

And getting charged for 8 tires and 3 gearboxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird. I was misdiagnosed for years. I know of two people who had doctors prescribe medication that had warnings, which were ignored/missed and ended up destroying these two people’s lives. The healthcare system is sh*t.

Clarification: Weird as in upselling hasn’t been an issue but incompetence has!

Totally, while the doctor acts all arrogant and infallible. The minute I find I doctor who tells me what he/the field doesn't know, I cling to him like glue (it is usually men too - the most arrogantly are men but also the least arrogant are (different) men - doctors who are willing to listen to you and recognize the limits of their knowledge/medicine as a field.