To be somewhat rich you need to be savvy and hard working, and a bit lucky. To be insanely rich and be worth as much as tens of thousands of high school teachers, you need some sociopathic tendencies.
Musk tentative 50B payout would require me to work 250 000 years - as a physician.
It’s in their bonus structure. Not directly but if the options are prolonging a patient’s life by approving a drug/treatment or just letting him die, which one do you think the number crunchers and shareholders would prefer?
This is post is how I learned you had moved to Bluesky! Great to see you here! I barely touch Twitter anymore, so it's nice I can keep following your content 🙂
Before the 1970’s it wasn’t against the law to beat your wife. Wives started killing abusive husbands and getting off(battered wife syndrome). That’s when it was against the law to beat your wife. When the people with power become afraid that’s when it’s against the law to kill people with no power.
Because that's just business. Corporations are granted the rights of an individual when it comes to being prejudiced, but once it comes to any sort of ramifications all of a sudden they are a corporate entity. All the benefits, while having none of the consequences.
Meanwhile, looking for a suspect they insure 30 million people in the USA. That’s a lot of suspects. Narrowing it down to young where males still like a million.
I know it's rhetorical but it really amazes me what happens when we let the rich business types write the laws and pay elected officials to do their bidding
We tell them no by electing lawmakers with a backbone willing to stand up for what is actually right, just, and ethical even when that means reduced corporate profits. But the majority of the nation is more concerned about whatever Boogeyman tucker fuckson is banging on about this week
Because, as I have sadly learned, it's not a crime when it's done with bureaucracy. Kill someone on the street for their wallet? > Criminal law - arrested for murder. Kill someone by denying their medical claim with AI algorithm? > Civil law - maybe you'll get fined someday.
Too many people think that declined claims are due to fraud or a lack of coverage. And even when they do blame the businesses, they don’t blame the people in them.
I had a dude tell me today that the insurance companies aren't the problem, the government is for letting them do it. People are so out of touch with the world. They're only willing to blame general concepts, not the individuals perpetrating the injustices.
That's not entirely wrong, our politicians are not morally superior to the guy who got merced. They're supposed to be protecting us, but they're clearly not. So the whole lot of them will end up in the bad place.
There’s corruption in the government too. My problem is that people like him are unwilling to lay the blame on specific people. All of the people who are doing this need to be held accountable. No more hand-waving about it just being how it is or that no one’s really at fault.
Or "it's the consumer's fault for letting companies do this."
Because, you know, let's completely absolve the people in charge of these corporations from any moral responsibility for their disgusting evil decisions.
I'm paywalled, since I pretty much never read Bloomberg, but I remember distinctly when the GOP wanted to repeal the ACA under Trump there was considerable worry about gun violence and coverage if they had succeeded
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UHC and Humana are the worst payers, for both hospital and professional claims.
This was 7 years ago. Doctor burn out 51%. Before covid, anti abortion, anti trans, CLERGY POLITICS!
Musk tentative 50B payout would require me to work 250 000 years - as a physician.
Executives statistically murder thousands or millions of people and they get a damned bonus
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York & Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.
If the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures
USofA: cf the rest of the capitalist developed world
Hey, guess who runs corporations?
Dark but I bet it’s a consideration.
So happy to see so many MDs no longer accept insurance and switch to direct pay models.
As if we could just tell them no or something?
Denying the claim
Delaying pursuit of the claim, including appeals
Defending the claim against litigation
Also, in UHC's case, *the computer did it*
No one condones senseless murder, but how the hell is this worse than what they, and other insurers, don’t patients?
I’m so here for the insurance reckoning. It’s such a wildly inhuman industry at this point.
Insurance this ineffective isn't truly insurance. It becomes buying healthcare at all, when the alternative is nothing.
True insurance can only really exist alongside subsidized heathcare to prioritize service.
Because, you know, let's completely absolve the people in charge of these corporations from any moral responsibility for their disgusting evil decisions.