Reply #12: "The Witness" is your typical greedy, unfeeling, uncaring doctor [View All]

I've got a statistic for him: 95% of doctors are like him, more concerned about profits than healing, which is why we have a health care crisis today.

It's not just because of lack of insurance. It's because doctors won't listen to their patients, causing the patients to doctor-hop for months or even years until they find one of those rare doctors who cares enough to listen and help.

I'm not on the side of greedy insurance CEO's, but at the same time, when a patient has to go from doctor to doctor, desperate for help he/she isn't getting, those costs add up. I lost my insurance because of this--these greedy doctors kept having me take the same tests over and over, until my insurance rates got so high that I couldn't afford my premiums anymore.

Want to know the punch line? I didn't even have a serious disease. I was having neurological symptoms from chronic hyperventilation resulting from stress. Any doctor listening to my lungs could have figured it out in a matter of seconds...if they'd wanted to.

Doctors are bilking patients AND insurance companies, so when the insurance companies get bilked, they do what any other business does: Pass it on to the consumer. So we end up getting screwed by both doctors and the insurance companies.