Comments on: CNN Newsroom Anchor Heidi Collins and Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen use change:healthcare http://company.changehealthcare.com/cnn-newsroom-anchor-heidi-collins-and-senior-medical-correspondent-elizabeth-cohen-use-changehealthcare/ Behind the Scenes at change:healthcare Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:02:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeanne Amato http://company.changehealthcare.com/cnn-newsroom-anchor-heidi-collins-and-senior-medical-correspondent-elizabeth-cohen-use-changehealthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Jeanne Amato Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:07:47 +0000 http://company.changehealthcare.com/blog/cnn-newsroom-anchor-heidi-collins-and-senior-medical-correspondent-elizabeth-cohen-use-changehealthcare/#comment-830 It appears you do not support a single-payer healthcare system. Anyone who makes a decision on this subject should sit with someone working in medical billing for at least one month and stay with a physician while requesting authorization for care of his/her patients. I have been in the medical field for 38 years and have watched the insurance companies take over medicine. Patients are now being called consumers. Insurance companies must make a profit for themselves and their investors to stay in business. Some things cannot be accomplished by businesses. Government must take responsibility for it. I heard that prisons are now contracted out to profit-making businesses. Are we to call prisoners consumers too? Soon fire departments will be contracted out and those they protect will be called consumers? There are too many MBAs, instead of scientists, mathematicians, and historians. My 41-year-old son recently got a divorce, has been out of his construction job for a few months, and is too proud to go on Medicaid, even though he has worn out his shoulder and arm from work and needs to be seen. No doctor is allowed to see him unless he has insurance. It is out of their contract with their insurance company. He must wait until it is severe enough to go to the emergency room for care. It will cost much more then. It appears you do not support a single-payer healthcare system. Anyone who makes a decision on this subject should sit with someone working in medical billing for at least one month and stay with a physician while requesting authorization for care of his/her patients. I have been in the medical field for 38 years and have watched the insurance companies take over medicine. Patients are now being called consumers. Insurance companies must make a profit for themselves and their investors to stay in business. Some things cannot be accomplished by businesses. Government must take responsibility for it. I heard that prisons are now contracted out to profit-making businesses. Are we to call prisoners consumers too? Soon fire departments will be contracted out and those they protect will be called consumers? There are too many MBAs, instead of scientists, mathematicians, and historians.

My 41-year-old son recently got a divorce, has been out of his construction job for a few months, and is too proud to go on Medicaid, even though he has worn out his shoulder and arm from work and needs to be seen. No doctor is allowed to see him unless he has insurance. It is out of their contract with their insurance company. He must wait until it is severe enough to go to the emergency room for care. It will cost much more then.

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