Private insurance companies create barriers to care through practices like denying medications and excessive information requests.

“and the problem is the longer we take to acknowledge and address these tough problems the more entrenched the interests become that profit from the status quo right so if you look at um the private insurance industry uh right now there are so many challenges we have right now with patients and clinicians saying that they know what care is needed but it gets denied they know what care is needed but prior authorizations you know get grown up there and required uh even for a medicine that clearly your patient needs urgently”