Health care’s modern-day Wicked: How insurers label doctors as the villains
The box office hit Wicked is a modern retelling of the classic Wizard of Oz, where the Wizard labels Elphaba as “wicked” in his pursuit of control and greed. Much like the Wizard, who manipulates society by changing Elphaba’s name and orchestrating a movement to bring about her downfall, today’s health care insurance industry uses similar tactics to portray physicians—particularly anesthesiologists—as the villains. A recent article from Vox echoes …
Health care’s modern-day Wicked: How insurers label doctors as the villains
