As a board-certified, practicing emergency physician, I am ready at any hour to provide care for any kind of trauma, from life-threatening illness to disaster response. I also take pride in the fact that emergency physicians are increasingly patient advocates beyond the emergency room.
This is in contrast to the major insurance companies attempting to use a proposed legislative solution to surprise medical billing as a Trojan horse to pad their already surging profits, decimate hospitals, and distract from their predatory and systematic practices of shifting costs to patients.
