Weird how we have to pay more money every single year, and insurance somehow provides us less and less for our greater and greater spend
Or, with car insurance, you get punished for actually using the service you pay for.
A service you are legally required to pay for, no less.
Isn’t the required car insurance the part that covers the OTHER cars, property and people you might harm with your car?
I don’t think it’s required that you carry enough insurance to be able to replace your own car. Might depend on your state, though?
Usually if there is a lien against the title, you’re required to carry full coverage, and liability only when you own the title.
That’s usually a policy of the lender, though, not a law.
That makes sense. I never put any thought into it other than knowing I had to carry it.
Oh I guess that makes sense, since the vehicle is the collateral on the loan. Hard to repo a wreck.
Yeah, you’re right.
Oh, but
if you’re rich,we have the best healthcare system in the world!Richpeople from all over the globe come to America for medical care!And ironically, rich Americans travel the globe for the best healthcare.
As a non-rich American who got fucked over by The Mayo Clinic last year who were not only no help, but the patient advocate got me a full refund including for the AirBnB, I don’t blame them.
Me neither, to be honest. I just find it funny that they brag about the US having the best healthcare in the world and then go to Canada for anything that requires a stay in a hospital, Mexico for dental, and Thailand for cosmetic surgeries.
It is actually kinda incredible. I remember seeing a comic in Mad Magazine back in the 90s that satirized insurance companies by cutting ‘expensive’ healthcare and the cartoon showed an emaciated patient on IV and the insurance guy about to cut the tube with scissors.
They’re the ones practicing medicine now
This just feeds into my disillusionment with science and technology. What is the point of having developed these incredible things to then not go and use them. I just have to spell it out now. What. The. Fuck. You know I was born into a modern age but looks like im going to die in the dark ages.
In capitalism, EVERYTHING only exists for profit. If there isn’t money to be drained, it’s tossed to the landfill
Including science.
We research profitable fields and defund unprofitable ones.
It’s not a Sci/Tech issue.
It’s a dystopian capitalism issue. When products that don’t have adequate profit margin and volume to make notable contributions to the bottom line, or worse yet, negativley affect the bottom line in a high per-unit cost, they are a liability. Profits direct research, too, unfortunately.
Humanity, quality of life, and all that medical shit is secondary or even further down the priority list for the corporations thinking about their profits first and the “service” last.
Capitalism is not the issue in this case. I’m certain that prostetics have adequate profit margins. It’s a lucrative business.
The issue here is that the insurance company just doesn’t want to pay for it.
It’s the insurance company that doesn’t have an adequate profit margin without screwing their customers over.
Capitalism is not the issue? Yet everything you just said the reason is for adequate profit margin is indeed capitalism.
Capitalism drives the health insurance company too. Greedy investors fund the health insurance decisions. All insurance companies, actually, with the possible exception of mutuals.
The issue here is that the insurance company just doesn’t want to pay for it.
That’s part of capitalism, too.
That’s just greed. I hate capitalism as much as anyone else here, but there’s no need to pin plain theft on any -ism.
That’s capitalism. That’s all it is.
Profit margin for who…? They already have your premium payments so actually covering your care gives them nothing, as far as they’re concerned you can do one. That’s why claim denial is the primary role of an insurance provider and all of its metrics, not coverage, the goal is to keep as much of your money as possible.
I wonder if someone cut off the CEO’s limbs, would the medical necessity of prosthetic limbs would be questioned?
You know, maybe we should force healthcare CEOs to be insured with the lowest tier of their own insurance.
Kinda misses the point because they have their own money to pay for whatever treatments they want, even if their company regularly denies them to clients. Buying insurance is gambling against the house, just health insurance has that extra bit where the insurance companies somehow have a say in what treatments they’ll cover.
That’s why the rich don’t gaf about ruining public services. They can still just hire someone to do it for them and if the government isn’t providing the service for everyone else, they’ll also need to hire someone to do those things, meaning some capitalist can set up a business to profit from the need the government no longer meets.
True. I almost forgot you can pay with your own money. When you dont have any disposable income, you don’t even consider that some people can afford to pay for things out of insurance.
Like some kind of new saw movie lol
It’s almost as if someone recently gave a heads up on how the public feels about health insurance companies… and they chose to implement this anyway 🤔
Line must go up. They probably see themselves as brave by continuing to follow Friedman’s shareholder logic in the face of these events.
That’s not how it works. The CEO is so wealthy that the insurance companies treat them for free because of all the business they bring in from enrolling their workers.
We don’t hear stories about the soft privileges of being in a position of power very often but they tend to be immense. We’re just not in the club so we would never know.
Why are US citzens not founding a health care co-op? Are there even viable solutions left over there?
Between the regulatory capture and corporate/political bribery, it’ll be tough to change anything from a grassroots perspective.
Lots but a couple of note:
Health insurance already has deals with pharmaceuticals and hospitals to charge a specific rate. The buy in on these deals is cost prohibitive to some degree. Think legal and administrative cost, especially when working between municipalities and States, let alone from hospital to hospital.
Health sharing ministries are a form of this. They have tied the concept to religious roots which is often limiting e.g. women’s and queer healthcare. They also have horror stories in the same abubdance as the big corps.
There’s nothing technically stopping a coop from forming short of startup capital and legal status. But those are insanely large hurdles.
I have a friend who has a prosthetic. Sure they could live their life in a wheelchair. But this guy goes hiking, and acts like a fully capable walking person. The quality of life is huge. It really gives back their life.
Yep. It’s absolutely insane they wouldn’t cover it.
It’s honestly unethical as shit.
Unethical and counterproductive. Having a prosthetic limb would almost invariably lead to a less sedentary lifestyle, which is strongly correlated with better health. Paying for a prosthetic today has to be cheaper than paying for a heart attack or diabeties later.
Yes, but who cares about later if there are quarterly and yearly profits to get.
You’re making the assumption that they’ll pay out for a heart attack or diabetes later. You just said that they were caused by the pre-existing condition of not having a prosthetic limb.
What makes you think they will pay for heart surgery or diabetes later.
Depends on how you measure productivity. The hope is that by the time long term care is required for things like diabetes or heart disease, the patient would be eligible for Medicare.
That or the sedimentary lifestyle will so negatively affect the more than likely diabetic patient, that they go into renal failure and qualify for disability through social security. Effectively removing their cost onto a socialized network.
Paying for a prosthetic is much cheaper in the long run, but not for private insurance. The vast majority of the cost of not providing a prosthetic will be absorbed by Medicare.
But being unwell is profitable
Won’t somebody thinking about the profiteers?
Those guys can go to hell
It’s absolutely insane that people should be expected to either buy insurance or pay for medical care out of their own pocket. And the insurance is never enough.
I mean it’s not really. They don’t cover hearing aids or even implant surgery. “Not necessary” is what my sister gets told. Yeah, trying living deaf you asshats!
They are saying it’s not “medically necessary” to have any quality of life. As long as you’re breathing, you’re A-okay in their book.
This is what insurance in the US has come to mean.
Like how they still consider dental care to be “cosmetic.” They’ll rip them out of your head free of charge, but putting new ones in? No sir… You can eat mush!
But God forbid anyone mentions a solution that includes socialized healthcare…
From a purely “medical necessity” viewpoint even, having a properly-functioning prosthetic helps him keep the rest of his body healthy! (Although I suppose they’d figure on denying claims for hospital treatment when his unhealthy heart caved in!)
(Although I suppose they’d figure on denying claims for hospital treatment when his unhealthy heart caved in!)
The long term goal of this type of policy is to not only reduce immediate cost, but to offload the cost of long term care onto a socialized network like social security.
The majority of amputees are already diabetics, if you remove their ability to remain active and mobile, you substantially increase the chance of renal failure. Patients who require dialysis because of renal failure get enrolled for disability through social security.
Noooo heckin’ killing CEOs is violent and bad
Then this fucking headline pops up.
They’re basically crippling people, who could have at least some kind of limb use, by denying them limbs that THEY ALREADY PAID FOR AS PART OF INSURANCE PAYMENTS.
This is exactly the type of shit that radicalizes people into violent action.
It’s almost like they’re trying to force people to be violent. I don’t get it.
I’ve been in corporations being driven unto the ground to extract as much money as humanly possible in the shortest amount of time. They are sociopaths, they are physically incapable of stopping. They want ALL the money and they want it NOW. They can not help themselves, and they won’t stop unless they are forced to stop by regulations, you know, in a well regulated capitalist society that puts limits on greed that costs people’s lives or happiness on an undue scale. If you don’t have those regulations… we’ll that’s how you get a forced reset of the country by people who can’t manage to swallow that much bullshit
Violence is NEVER the answer! Can you imagine how horrible it would be if some degenerate insurance needer walked into a board meeting and pewpew’d all the poor shareholders? Who would make the hard decisions and demands that costs be dramatically cut and value dramatically increased? What if some horrible psychopath threw a maltov into an executive office? Or some villainous cloak and dagger type of scum rigged car bombs in some poor wealthy persons gated drive way? What would we do then! We’d live in terror of extracting value out of a system that is ment to provide service instead of just freely taking that value without consequences! Can’t you even image how bad that would be! Think of the CEOs people!
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I get the anger, and there’s no direct threat of violence, so I’m leaving it up.
Let’s-a-go! - luigi
It would be hilarious if this happened again and the guy was called Mario.
Your comment to gods ears!
“I mean technically any medical service is not truly medically necessary, right? You could just die*”
*Funeral services are not covered under your current plan.
Man, I wish I could serve on that Luigi jury.
So say we all.
Wow. This means that now, someone can say that medical bills literally cost them an arm & a leg.
Burn it all to the ground
Someone needs to play super Mario bros again.
