Dr P. Brent King is a Board Certified Family Physician. After ten years of practicing medicine, caring for the Ill's of my community, promoting health for adults by building a beautiful Health-club and for children by starting a Non-profit Child Obesity Program, I have come to learn that our health care system is full of greed, politics and entangled un-ethical business decision making.
I feel that Americans need to understand better how the health care system works. For that reason I have chosen to support this blog site with commentary. I started out ten years ago thinking that I had entered a wonderful profession full of professional camaraderie, ethics and collegial support for the betterment of a community. I was wrong. Instead I saw the greed and poor ethics that the local hospitals displayed. I saw how physicians chose to support their colleagues financial well-being at the expense of their patients. How hospitals chose to implement money making procedures (like cardiac cath labs) despite in-adequate facilities and staff. Most importantly however is that I learned first hand how the Insurance companies have destroyed health care.
It is the Insurance companies that in effect have played havoc on the health care system to the point that all the above mentioned concerns stem from. If it were not for the GREED of the insurance companies than there would be no trickle down ethics problems to overcome with the hosptials and doctors. This blog site will address all aspects of health care from insurance issues, communication problems with your physican and other interesting discussion.
The impetus for this blog came to me when I was in Philadelphia. It was in the early Spring of 2008. I was enjoying the city for the history, people and wonderful smells that captivate the very senses. Not thinking about anything in particular that day. The architect of the historic buildings in Philadelphia is inspiring as in any East Coast city. What caught my eye however was this blue, all glass modern high-rise. I could not help but to wonder how much that building must have cost. It was at that moment that my chest tightened, my veins distended and my heart started racing over the anger that I was feeling when I saw the Blue Cross Blue Shield logo. This was the moment that I realized that "free market" health care and "affordable" health care could not exist in the same sentence. Ten years of breaking my back to run a medical office, handling denial after denial, paying good money to staff just so they could spend eight hours a day fighting with the insurance companies and trying to explain to our patients why they owed us money. What a sad state of affairs to know that the CEO sits up in his Ivory tower trying to figure out how not to pay claims to doctors. It is here that our blogging begins.
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