PLEASE LOOK INTO BRIANA BOSTON THE WOMAN WHO IS FACING TERRORISM CHARGES IN FLORIDA FOR SAYING DENY DEFEND DEPOSE YOURE NEXT TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY ON THE PHONE AND IS NOW ARRESTED IN FLORIDA
The more broken the system becomes the more people are going to be pushed into radical positions and feel inspired to go to these extremes to fix the problem.
The CEOs SHOULD be scared. They’ve been ignoring us for too long. This sort of incident was inevitable.
Health insurance “workers” can be foreign workers who deny your care
Many health insurance companies off shore their staff. See heading “Insurance-related functions that can be offshored.” You will notice case management on the list. They r responsible 4 denials
Behold the wrath of so many denied, not only life saving prescriptions and surgeries, but the psychological damage inflicted on patients and their families,helpless to survive draconian healthcare systems.
Why on earth would the Times give a flying fluff what the rank and file have to say. It’s as complicit as the rest of the media for sane washing our clearly insane situation.
Of course they do. The employees are the ones who have to tell patients and family members no. The employees know there’s no logical reason to deny the claims. The employees have to watch people live in pain or die.
If i was to guess, most of the members of the public's concerns would be around higher prices for health care to cover the security cost of insurance company executives, which...is incredibly depressing to think about
Agree! I work for a health insurance company dealing with denials.
There are a lot of good people at the insurance company that I work with every day who try to do the right thing for patients, including nurses and doctors, but are limited because of insurance contract made made between
.. the employers and the insurance company. I’ve worked here for 12 years and it has gone from a climate of improving health outcomes for the customers and moved to a conveyer belt of denials, where they have ..
.. either our metrics based on number of reviews completed not quality of work or laid off US employees to replace with AI or India/offshore based employees.
Check out this site where disinfranchised workers go to discuss topics anonymously. The site is meant for layoff alerts, but you can hear first hand from staff from all health insurance companies how they are being treated. https://www.thelayoff.com/unitedhealth-group
I hope the CEOs and executives are scared. They should be. If a seemingly normal guy like Luigi can be radicalized in this way... there's hope for anyone.
Trump is going to gut ACA, Republicans are going to gut all our safety nets and Trump/GOP will do nothing about our gun epidemic. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is going.
Yep, it's too bad dems are braindead, do-nothing, offer-nothing, genocidal freaks. It didn't have to be like this. They could have pivoted left instead of right. Now we'll have barbarism and class war, which is probably needed at this point.
The Atlantic also put out an article by Graeme Wood blaming the people & not healthcare. The tone-deafness is so blatant in the biggest media outlets. They’re not hearing our cries of class warfare.
The NYT should also be reporting that hard working federal employees are also fearful due to Trump Musk MAGA threats to both their jobs & personal attacks.
Federal employees are doctors, nurses, researchers, scientists, IT, security & more. Contrary to MAGA propaganda, federal employees work hard
they took money from the health companies, and did their bidding. They are a group, if they had any ethical fiber could have shut it all down. they are as complicit as a nazi prison guard, just following orders...
Surprised it took so long for Americans to vent this anger en masse. The topic has been covered for decades in films: Sicko, The Rainmaker, John Q, etc. It's been a major election issue in the past, at least for progressives. There's never been a way to justify the for-profit system and its abuses.
I've heard that but never watched it! It'd be interesting to see how long a full list would be. Not long enough to do the issue justice, probably, but I bet it'd still be looong.
The proletariat of the health insurance industry are not afraid, their company's oligarchs however are worried. Not worried enough to actually change their behavior though.
It’s interesting how, clearly, top management was targeted, yet the Times fabricates fear—without evidence—by implying that ALL insurance workers are in danger of being targeted.
The corporate media continues outing itself as not an unbiased observer, but a defender of wealth.
Almost every person expressing what is basically compassion for Luigi also feels that compassion for the health insurer workers too. Those folks have a job to do, and we all need them to do it. As Ken says NYT should talk to the people occasionally.
You don't need them to do that work.
If instead you sent the money to the IRS, then it got handed over to the Department of Health, and they paid the doctors' salaries etc directly, everything would be so much more efficient.
Hasan said it best, eliminating the for profit aspect of health care doesn't remove the need or budget for those jobs. It simply removes the excess accumulation and focuses it back on giving people actual Healthcare and coverage
I think the two aren't mutually exclusive. Employees can share the public's anger, while also knowing (sometimes from personal experience) that they might be the target of someone lashing out because of that anger.
That would oppose the narrative that CEOs are sacred little uwu baby bears who run all of society by their wittle selves and everyone loves them. Instead of reality where boards, shareholders, and CEOs are genuinely evil, soulless monstrosities hellbent on control and gaining capital over all else.
lol. As they should be. The insurance industry is scam and a parasitical industry invented to exploit and profit off of the suffering of working class people.
I would take this pile-on more seriously if people actually read the article >>>
“It’s a moment of reckoning for the health care industry, more broadly,” said Dr. Sachin H. Jain, the chief executive of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan. “We’ve unmasked a sentiment that things need to change.”
I read it. Literally right before that it says, “All of the tumult was leading some to raise questions about the industry’s future direction, even as many executives complained that they thought portrayals of their companies were unfair and rooted in incomplete or inaccurate information.”
Another paragraph. No real pushback or data is given. It’s just “well here’s two opinions, the C-suite one seems super reasonable and side note some people are denied care.”
"As health care costs have climbed, Americans have become increasingly frustrated with having to pay more for insurance, only to find when they need care that they still face large medical bills because their plan often does not cover the full expense."
"Other patients have had to battle the insurers over getting treatment as the companies have become increasingly aggressive about requiring authorization and denying care they considered unnecessary."
pfft. the NYT ain't got time for the petty small folk. We all know that the workers don't drive company policy and so they shouldn't be considered real people. Even if they were, they'd still be too dumb and emotional to have actual thoughts worth printing.
I have a client that is in the same building as an insurance company. They have that building locked down like Ft Knox. How about just acting ethically so you don’t have to?
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I thought for a moment and realized there isn't. This "is" the way to deal with the problem because the problems are protected by the corpocracy.
Just a guy saying “I can’t take this anymore and decided to do something about it, even if my methods were extreme.”
The CEOs SHOULD be scared. They’ve been ignoring us for too long. This sort of incident was inevitable.
Many health insurance companies off shore their staff. See heading “Insurance-related functions that can be offshored.” You will notice case management on the list. They r responsible 4 denials
https://aswhiteglobal.com/the-4-ways-insurance-companies-are-benefiting-from-offshoring-services/
There are a lot of good people at the insurance company that I work with every day who try to do the right thing for patients, including nurses and doctors, but are limited because of insurance contract made made between
Got their fingers in their ears.
They are in finance not care
They’re all probably “fAmiLy” at work, so speak up please! Approve peoples claims!
Federal employees are doctors, nurses, researchers, scientists, IT, security & more. Contrary to MAGA propaganda, federal employees work hard
They are in finance not care
Poor confused workers
They are in finance not care
The corporate media continues outing itself as not an unbiased observer, but a defender of wealth.
If instead you sent the money to the IRS, then it got handed over to the Department of Health, and they paid the doctors' salaries etc directly, everything would be so much more efficient.
It’s right out of the movie, “The Rainmaker”.
“It’s a moment of reckoning for the health care industry, more broadly,” said Dr. Sachin H. Jain, the chief executive of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan. “We’ve unmasked a sentiment that things need to change.”
A fkn joke , there are currently 7.8million unfilled jobs in America right now only counting legal 'books in' work
Take another fkn job that doesnt prey on people at their most vulnerable, take a couple $$ pay cut then you won't be "fearful"
Show some solidarity