9,000 physicians just walked out of Anthem’s network in New York.
If you’re an Anthem member who sees a Mount Sinai doctor, you just lost access to your physician.
Not because of quality.
Not because of safety.
Because a $500 billion system and a $130 billion insurer couldn’t agree on price.
This is what happens when healthcare is a negotiation between giants.
The patient isn’t at the table.
The patient is on the menu.
Mount Sinai will survive.
They will continue to sponsor pro sports teams and send patients to collections.
Anthem will survive.
They will lobby aka pay lawmakers for more protection.
The diabetic in Brooklyn who just lost her endocrinologist? She’s the one scrambling.
This is the system working exactly as designed.
