Another quote “This is a recipe for driving up health care costs” - clearly the physicians are the reason costs are going up, right?
In addition to other articles highlighting physician lack of empathy, or dismissal of symptoms, they appear to ignoring in their reporting, the problematic system of how healthcare is set up. (Think about your RVU system, admin driven schedule, and compensation based structuring that determines how physicians can practice.)
There is one glimmer of comment that acknowledges it might not always be the rich doctors: “The Times interviewed two physicians who show up repeatedly in public data files. Both said they were salaried workers and uninvolved in the claims filed under their names.” But ends there. No elaboration. The public doesn’t need to understand that many physicians are just employees, like the front desk staff.
Has anyone else been seeing a pattern in NYT reporting? This pattern could be interpreted as media bias. What do people think.