Dealing with health insurers only getting worse: U.S. doctors


By Xia Lin

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The killing of a top health insurance executive outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel last week in New York City triggered an outpouring of public anger at an industry many Americans blame for the ills of the nation's healthcare system, and doctors are also among the aggrieved, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Thursday.

Doctors deal day in and day out with insurers including UnitedHealthcare, whose chief executive, Brian Thompson, was shot to death last week by an assassin who targeted him outside the company's annual investor conference. Doctors say their frustration is born of intimate experience and has been building for years.

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