User 326348

Aetna's Supposed Healthcare IT Prowess: The Bar is Set Awfully Low

It is an unfortunate myth that has been developed by health insurance companies/ managed care that they represent a high quality, more efficient medicine. The only reason they use I.T is to cut their cost . They have no regard to the patients' health . Health insurance companies/ managed care were created due to the need to improve health care quality and access while keeping costs down . They have failed miserably and created ,instead, monster administrations which actually drove the cost of healthcare up. They have raised the cost of health insurance up , decreased access to healthcare and at the same time they have decreased physician and hospital compensation over the last 10 years by more than one half. Where do you think went all the money that they have made with this technique ? The answer is simple: to bloat further their own administrations and increase exponentially the direct and indirect income of their top executives. The US healthcare costs are still going up BECAUSE of these
healthcare insurance companies . Managed care has become a total failure that serves only the managed care companies and their executives while abusing everybody else. Any attempts to correct this problem need to start by removing healthcare insurance companies from the business of healthcare. The government should not even consider using them to help deliver Universal healthcare. Managed care organizations/health insurance companies have now a proven record of being more inefficient and definitely more costly to the health care system even than Medicare,while raising and not decreasing health costs. By cutting compensation to hospitals and doctors and raising their charges , Managed care organizations/health insurance companies have decreased health quality and access while increasing their top executives' compensation.
Getting rid of these healthcare system parasites will be a great positive step in the right direction of fixing the american healthcare system. The challange is now in the hands of the new team in Washington.

A 30 year veteran of the American healthcare system.