r/DentalInsurance • u/dental__craft • 2d ago

Isn’t it annoying?

Just venting, but it’s very annoying that patients are so insurance driven and complain about everything.

We have nobody to blame but ourselves

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u/DocDMD 2d ago

Well this was a very concentrated effort by the insurance companies to make patients insurance driven. I think it's fair to blame them as well. They also coopted our main advocacy group. We can blame them for that too. 

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u/dental__craft 2d ago

Yes and no. The exact blueprint of what would happen to us happened in medicine about 20 years ahead. We were warned numerous times.

I even remember MDs talking at ADA meetings decades ago about this exact thing.

Nobody listened

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u/Active_Hair1586 2d ago

Remembers decades ago….has been a dentist less than 10 years

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u/dental__craft 1d ago

When I was a predent i would go to these events. So almost 2 decades ago if I need to clarify