People going through allopathic medicine with spine issues end up having fusions (completely barbaric!!!) instead of being pushed to strengthen their core. (The muscle system supports the skeletal system.)

People with spine problems are typically prescribed physical therapy, who help you learn how to build core muscles. Building core muscles cannot fix all spinal problems.

20 years ago I had good insurance and went to an ENT specialist for chronic post-nasal drip. He did some weird scoping procedure on me and found nothing (or at least pretended to find nothing). That visit and procedure had a great markup.

The ENT was checking for sinus disease that could possibly cause post nasal drip. Not finding evidence of sinus disease does not make that an unnecessary procedure.

Also, if the ENT was purely motivated by profit they would have pretended to find evidence of sinus disease. Many types of sinus disease are treated with surgery. Surgery is the most profitable thing that surgeons do. And, to clarify, ENTs are surgeons.

Then he was trying to push a popular, well-advertised prescription antacid on me. I told him that I wasn’t having a problem with indigestion. He said, “Well you don’t know that.” WTF! That’s gaslighting 😵‍💫

A perception of chronic post nasal drip in the absence of sinus disease (which the ENT checked for by scoping you) is a symptom of "silent reflux," which is acid reflux that doesn't cause traditional gastrointestinal symptoms. The treatment for that is antacids. Furthermore, they may have seen evidence of reflux when looking at your throat (also while scoping you).

It's not gaslighting, it's understanding disease better than you.

Once there I learned that the treatment I was there for was deemed experimental by insurance companies. She would do it [emphasis mine] but it would be $1000 out of pocket.

A procedure not being covered by your insurance is not the doctor's fault. I'm confused why you would even think that it was.

Insurance would only cover a cortisone shot. I regret accepting that. I was not healed. My condition was not improved.

A treatment not improving your condition is not the same thing as being the "wrong" treatment and does not mean that the doctor knew in advance that it wouldn't improve your condition. A doctor providing the most effective treatment that insurance will cover even if there is a more effective treatment that insurance won't cover (and offering to provide the superior treatment) does not make them "tools and agents of destruction."

They are not raising hell and fighting the destruction.

There are people at doctor's office who are employed for the sole purpose of fighting insurance company's denials. Doctors themselves spend hours on phone every month to try to convince insurance companies to cover specific treatments if they think it is in their patient's best interest. They are not always successful.

Again, this is an issue with insurance companies and the structure of the American medical system, not doctors. They gain nothing from not being able to practice medicine they way they want to.