Dr. Terry Gerard became a doctor because he wanted to help people.
The emergency room physician from Durant, Oklahoma, told The Epoch Times that he now feels he spends more time helping insurance companies get paid than he spends with his patients.
“Medicine has a lot of bureaucracy; it creates a barrier between the patient and the physician,” Dr. Gerard said. “We feel like we spend more time on a computer.”
He says overregulation and micromanagement by health insurance companies and regulators stifle his ability to provide care.
Dr. Brian Miller is an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and a nonresident fellow for the American Enterprise Institute. He said a simple solution to Dr. Gerard’s conundrum would be to let him own the hospital….