• rafoix@lemmy.zip
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    Would mandating all healthcare executives to do the Hippocratic oath solve this problem?

    They would have opposing positions of having to provide care while maximizing shareholder value. Which in itself would show that insurance companies should not be allowed to exist.

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      1 month ago

      Wouldn’t change anything. These medical decisions are signed off on by MDs. I used to work for an insurer and those MDs were all dead inside.

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      What would that do when corporations are mandated to put shareholders over everything?

      And they do have doctors already being the ones to deny claimes

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      No. There’s lots of doctors who don’t follow this oath. “Doing harm” is simply part of medicine the oath is there for plausible deniability