The Bureaucracy we've Got

The father of one of the kids on the soccer team I used to coach is a primary care doc. He has a patient whom he suspects may have colon cancer, and ordered screenings, including a colonoscopy. But the patient is younger than the age threshold for his insurance company to cover a colonoscopy, so they’ve overruled his doc, and won’t pay.

My friend deals wtih this kind of crap all the time. That's part of why he is among the 72% of physicians support AT LEAST a public option.

http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1790#more-1790