> Health plans covered the full cost of about 82% of claims, according to the Peterson-KFF analysis. Patients who shared the cost paid $25 on average.
I would be very curious to know if my insurance is paying for the useless messages that my doctor's office sends. I sure hope not — they are next to worthless!
Also, your TFA is kind of unnecessarily vulgar (You do know what the F in TFA is for?) here seeing as it doesn't change the point of my original comment. I did, however, add the word "all" incase someone took my comment to read that I didn't think any insurance covered it.
Thanks for the thought, but unfortunately our whole system (Stanford Health Care, FWIW) is like this. My doctor is better than my kids' doctor, and my wife's doctor. The incentives are just not there for them to engage, so mostly I get nurse messages that are useless. It appears to be a copy/paste from google (or some internal system), basically.
As for "TFA", I do know what it means and see it used here regularly [1] and without meaning anything harsh. It's not like some people say "TA" and some people say "TFA". It's just TFA. Regardless, I didn't meant to offend you or make it seem like I was demeaning you. I was just pointing out that the article addressed your complaint, and indicated that the vast majority of insurance plans don't leave the cost up to the patient. I nonetheless appreciate your feedback and will consider "TFA" more carefully in the future. If you have any equally pithy alternatives, I would welcome them!
I know a few primary care doctors and they are all overworked and overbooked. I can't imagine any of them going above an beyond unfortunately (not because they don't want to but because they don't have the time). But most of the one's I know hate the system too.
I appreciate the clarification on tone. As a dev I read TFA in the same time as RTFM (as in: why didn't you read the article you moron?). But I get your usage as well.