Scenario One:
Alabama Citizen - Attached are my medical records. Please pre-approve my gallbladder removal. Thank you.
BCBS - Unfortunately, after looking at your records, our head medical clerk feels you can keep your gallbladder for up to five years with proper diet and meds.
Alabama Citizen - Your clerk's opinion is worth more than my surgeon's?
BCBS - Yes. We'll place Betty Lou Thelma Liz's opinion over that of any physician any day of the week. Surely you understand our logic. Now take care, ya heah!
Scenario Two:
Alabama's Chief Medical Officer - All citizens need to wear masks, and restaurants are not safe to dine in.
Alabama Legislature - Our opinion is that it should all be up to the individual. Let's support the economy.
Alabama's Chief Medical Officer - Could you tell us the basis of that so very unscientific opinion?
Alabama Legislature - Sure. We're elected and you're not. We have plenty of experience in raising cattle and selling carpets wholesale and a whole lotta other things you don't. Makes us much more qualified!
Doesn't it make you wonder why Alabama even has physicians when all it needs are legislators?
