profit before patient
6. Access Problems
When patients require specific therapies and an insurance company makes the frail or sickly patients jump thru hoops, denying or delaying care, it's time to move away from the insurance model.
My intent here is
"to inform. (The desired reader reaction: I didn’t know that!) ..... persuade. (Yes, I see the light!) [and otherwise] help people see things in unexpected ways. (I never thought of it that way!)"
Keller, Bill "The Latest Evolution of the Review" (NY Times 6/16/11)
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