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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" (Upton Sinclair, 1935)
In fact it is in the insurance companies' interest for health care costs to be as high as the public will tolerate. The higher the cost th more likely people are to feel they need insurance. The higher the costs the higher the value the companies can add a percentage to when charging premiums.
Palo Alto Online said:"Trying to reduce the cost of health care is not our priority," an NIH official told him, Davis recalled.
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news...hlights-new-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-research
No doubt insurance companies have to keep rogue physicians under control who charge out of line fees but it is in there interest for the approved fee to be as high as people will pay. Apparently, within the medical travel insurance area there is major behind the scenes collusion between big insurers and rip-off private clinics. Gatekeepers have to learn that certain 'friends' are allowed to slip their invoices through. And threatening phone calls are not uncommon. All good John Le Carré stuff by the sound of it.
[My bold]Peter White
Professor Emeritus in Psychological Medicine at BARTS and the London School of Medicine, and Chief Medical Officer, Swiss Re
Peter White is Professor Emeritus of Psychological Medicine at Barts and the London Medical School and a CMO at Swiss Re Life and Health in London, advising on psychiatric conditions and functional somatic syndromes. He has recently retired as a consultant liaison (general hospital) psychiatrist at Bart’s hospital, and led the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) service there.
Sounds like POTS is going to be targeted soon. From memory, POTS is defined as marked increase in heart rate when the patient stands up. How are they going to psychologize something like that? Perhaps by downplaying the objective tests (for example by insisting that POTS is rare), the interpretation (by insisting it just means deconditioning) or by promoting misdiagnosis with deliberately misleading diagnostic criteria, or just going the PACE route and fabricating evidence that CBT/GET can reverse POTS.
Sounds like POTS is going to be targeted soon. From memory, POTS is defined as marked increase in heart rate when the patient stands up. How are they going to psychologize something like that? Perhaps by downplaying the objective tests (for example by insisting that POTS is rare), the interpretation (by insisting it just means deconditioning) or by promoting misdiagnosis with deliberately misleading diagnostic criteria, or just going the PACE route and fabricating evidence that CBT/GET can reverse POTS.
Sadly, You are correct here.First thing will be to claim that the heightened heart rate is a stress response to the patient's unfounded fears at being upright, I would imagine.
POTS is defined as marked increase in heart rate when the patient stands up. How are they going to psychologize something like that?
First thing will be to claim that the heightened heart rate is a stress response to the patient's unfounded fears at being upright, I would imagine.
"A claims epidemic waiting to happen?"
He retired from QMUL and/or Barts on September 8, 2016 and the PACE Trial data was released to Alem Matthees the following day.[My bold]
When did PW adopt his role at Swiss Re, and when did he stop leading the CFS service at Bart's hospital, providing "treatments" his trial recommended years ago?
Sounds like POTS is going to be targeted soon. From memory, POTS is defined as marked increase in heart rate when the patient stands up. How are they going to psychologize something like that?