Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 17 July 2023 in Health care industry, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health insurance, Health Plans, Health policy, Health politics, Money and health, Nurses, Physicians, Quadruple Aim, Quintuple Aim, Retail health, Transparency
Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people said their health got worse as a result of that care-barrier. “These surveys bear out what we’ve heard for years — certain insurance companies’ policies and practices are reducing health care access and making
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