Very frustrated

Okay, today is January 20. New doctor, finally got tests done this week. Strength and function still nowhere close to where it should be. Now I'm looking at a surgery and more therapy or just do therapy and see how much longer it takes to get my hand fully functional. In three days, it will have been 4 MONTHS since the injury. The doctor said that if I wanted to just do therapy, I could do it a month and then see where I am. After all, he said, it's only another month. He's a freaking hand surgeon-how fast do you think he would get his hand fixed if he injured it? Besides, it won't be a month-it's already been three and I'm not even 50 % of my non-dominant yet. More like 2, even with surgery.

So the doctor has to jump through the hoops that the insurance company holds out for him. I basically have no say so as far as what I can do at work-so I guess I'm expected to go to work and do things that cause pain? Maybe if I don't do those things I would actually get well?

This whole experience and turned me off of our so called medical system even more. I can no longer defend a system that is profit driven yet so incredibly inefficient. Does someone in New Jersey really need to contact a facility in Marietta, GA to make me an appointment for a test? No-I am perfectly capable of doing it myself. Supposedly, they negotiate lower fees, but then by the time the insurance pays the third party for their service, wouldn't it cost the same? Let's just see how many people can make money off of my injury, while my treatment gets dragged out and I am highly inconvenienced with going to therapy on my days off, not being able to do all that I normally do. I am really enjoying being a pawn in the profit-making game known as the medical industry. Overall, it's doing a bang-up job; just not at doing what it's supposed to do.

This proves my point...

Okay, it's been since October 6 since I posted. I can only now type for short spans of time. I still can't mouse with my injured hand/wrist. I have a doctor that refuses to order an MRI even with a preponderance of evidence pointing to a soft-tissue injury that is not healed. I am totally getting the run around with him; then today I learn that my wonderful therapist has not been paid a dime from the WC insurance! In fact, they couldn't find my claim-which is interesting because they have contacted me on numerous occasions before.

Short Rant

This will be short. I only have one hand, thanks to a work injury.
When will our so-called leaders wake up to the fact that healthcare is hostage to corporate greed? It's not about health-it's about the money made by corporations. Insurers, pharma, biotech, DME, for-profit hospitals, they are all the same.
Excuse me! They already know that-how else do they get campaign money?
Yes, we need reform, but how can we trust the idiots who have functioned to get us where we are now to do it in the public's best interest? Don't forget the FDA allowing public prescription drug advertising in the 90's-look how prices skyrocketed! Now, look at what we have to pay for. Really, how many more ED commercials can they play after 11pm? Do we really need to see the name of a ED drug emblazoned on a car?

Can't wait for my hand to get well. I'm going to be the anti-Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, and the rest of the nutjobs who think they stand for conservatives. As much as I dislike labels, I would like something to separate me from them.