Do you think that person was in Georgia I doubt it, and think they were just a great role player. They train on stuff like that to fool us including keeping current with the latest football scores. In my opinion, that's evil.

I'm not sure if you were answering to me or not. If so, it's crazy to me that the doctors these days have these huge staffs that do nothing but coding for insurance companies. Everything has been pushed on the doctors, and they need 4 or 5 staff people, which means they need to be part of a group of doctors, which in turn leads to a business mentality, and I think less personal care than we had 20 years ago. IMHO the insurance industry is taking the doctors to the cleaners, having them do the paperwork, and then paying them in peanuts. My 2 cents.

Yes, A.B.T.,

I was answering to you and I sent you a very long reply a few nights ago but I don't know what happened to it. Maybe it was something that I did----I'm not especially computer savvy and my reply disappeared since I've last checked this thread. Anyway the gist (in case it was due to length and got deleted) was that healthcare to do is not what it used to be

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the ob/gyn's yearly well-woman's visit is a good example. Gone are the days when you would have a VERY thorough exam----Today the bare minimum exam is done and today's young women don't know the difference. My comment is to be sure that you report any unusual conditions, symptoms, etc.----don't expect your doctor to be a mind reader--they are going fast and furious these days due to the insurance changes and for heaven's sake do your monthly breast exam check. It might save your life.

I have to agree on the state of the medical industry. It seems to me they've been railroaded by the insurance industry. My doctors office has morphed from a group of 5 doctors into something like a college admissions department or a better example, the Department of Motor Vehicles. You go from station to station and it feels like I'm beeing pushed through an assembly line. Having thought about this for a number of years, the only conclusion I can reach is that the insurance industry has added such administrative overhead to the medical practices, that they have to combine and form huge medical businesses in order to cover the costs of the overhead. And so doctors need to see more and more patients an hour to make any sort of income, and that means they've outsourced the routine things like BP, temp, weight, discussion, etc, to lower paid medical interns and nurse practioners so that they free up their time to see 15 patients an hour.

How I miss the medical care of 10 years ago, when my doctor would see me for 10 minutes for an ingrown hair. Even though she could have said poof, and bye, she always spent time to discuss other issues, or to fully explain something. Now they see you for 30 seconds, and at station 10 when you checkout, the DMV clerk passes you a laser printed prescription w/o explanation of what it's for. Thank god the internet is here so we can find treatment information when the doctors give us free samples.

It's so sad - in order for a doctor to collect fees for seeing a patient he has to prove that the patient was worth seeing......so they "inflate" the patient's diagnosis to collect on the patients' insurance - or they won't get paid a cent. And most of the time they don't get it paid in full anyway. And don't forget those deductibles you have to pay up front. No wonder insurance rates are so high. And of course - the insurance company dictates who can have what and when.

Everything medical would be so much cheaper if a doctor could tell the truth and get paid for it - no matter how small it was!

If this keeps up - we wil be paying more and more and getting less and less. It's getting worse.