Dr. Jekyll’s Scary True Confessions

(Y2K Doctor – Patient Relationship)

“This is a contract, and I’m not in the business of subsidizing your care.  I’m not here to pay for your medical care.”

“We lie to patients. We’re always making up stories, because of what is happening.”

Source:  “Dr. Solomon’s Dilemma" PBS, April 4, 2000.  First quote from live television program transcript.  Second quote from PBS interview transcript with Dr. Solomon.

HMO HARDBALL’s Bottom Lines 
(Lyrics from the HMO Songbook)

HMO Blues

“We pay your doctors more,
If they kick you out the door
One thing that doctors lament
Is their unemployment.
Your doc works for us!


Make it One for the Patient

“Your docs are dictators
‘Til their patients end up
In health plan refrigerators.

HMO Rap
“Health plans use capitation
to cause doctor starvation
It’s all over the nation
That your healthcare is rationed.”


Plain Folks Healthcare

“No helpin’ hands reach out to me.
Docs don’t treat me tenderly.
Money’s tight for treatin’ me.
They’ll wreck my family.”
 

Hard-Hearted Health Plans

“HMOs abuse you,
Blatantly screw you
They sure can do it swell.
Gatekeepers are roadblocks
to stop expensive care.
No referrals ‘cause the system
is just no damn fair.
They’re hard-hearted health plans
With patients in trash cans today!”

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