tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20834426.post8352330213500052304..comments2023-09-03T02:36:17.415-07:00Comments on Bruin Democrats: Murder by Spreadsheet at UCLAExarchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16774296503648266079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20834426.post-19687225396716994252007-12-26T21:29:00.000-08:002007-12-26T21:29:00.000-08:00How come no one is blaming UCLA? A doctor's comm...How come no one is blaming UCLA? A doctor's commitment is to the patient, not the insurance company or the hospital....if this was truly a life-saving procedure, why didn't the UCLA docs go ahead with the transplant? Hospitals have to absorb all sorts of costs from underinsures, unisured, Medi-Cal patients all the time... We should be blaming Cigna......but UCLA is not an innocent bystander.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20834426.post-41091625878087882172007-12-22T06:35:00.000-08:002007-12-22T06:35:00.000-08:00I work in health care and have been fighting losin...I work in health care and have been fighting losing battles with insurance companies for years. They truly are purely profit-driven bastards. I also know for a fact that decisions are made by company officials with profit and bonus check decisions in mind. I was hired to be a clinical director for a company, and I was naive enough to believe that the company cared about quality. Interestingly, one of the big issues discussed was year-end bonus checks, which were, of course, based on reducing expenditures for health care. Managed care does not save anyone money, it just shifts the money to managers and administrators. It is time for national health care! Health care should not be under private, for-profit control!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com