Blue Cross Blue Shield will no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of certain surgeries in Connecticut, New York, and Missouri. If a surgery exceeds a specific duration, anesthesia costs for the additional time will not be covered. - ThreadSky

mixphx.bsky.social•85 days ago

Google searches for the ceo have spiked in the past week

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beckythelab.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wtf

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kikihausen.bsky.social•86 days ago

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adamdn.bsky.social•85 days ago

Stealing this. Sorry.

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davidquinn.oideachasmedia.com•86 days ago

Sounds like fraud to me

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4gabriel.bsky.social•85 days ago

This is for a land grab- they are going to put liens on peoples homes and businesses -this is some oil can harry level horse shit

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arturwanderlei.bsky.social•86 days ago

Uh... who's the CEO again?

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hoosiergreg.bsky.social•86 days ago

Trying to save money by getting rid of CEO salary🤷‍♂️

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botox4migraines.bsky.social•86 days ago

So that makes no sense at all. Fucking insurance companies get away with murder. If I was the Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO I'd be scared shitless. It looks like there is a bounty on the heads of insurance co's after today's event in NYC.

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brambling2.bsky.social•86 days ago

LITERAL murder, you know.

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dozygay.bsky.social•86 days ago

Their CEO might wanna rethink this cause…

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jezzaj.bsky.social•86 days ago

True.

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letthatonemarinate.bsky.social•86 days ago

Absolutely not the day for insurance companies to piss off the people they insure 😬

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haveaheartx3.bsky.social•86 days ago

Health insurance CEOs about to start traveling like cartel bosses. Makes sense because they’re drug pushers too

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kylen0txy.bsky.social•86 days ago

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joedirtinthehole.bsky.social•85 days ago

So... we gonna find out who their CEO is next?

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bonkheadz.bsky.social•86 days ago

Crazy day to announce this

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sv-rub-a-dub.bsky.social•86 days ago

It's like they're trying to off themselves at this point.

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luceelu.bsky.social•86 days ago

Shameful.

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luceelu.bsky.social•86 days ago

Keep reposting 😊

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oscarsmother.bsky.social•86 days ago

America sure will be great again!

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doctordoc.bsky.social•86 days ago

And here we go... This is what we voted for, this is what we get.

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elvinoray.bsky.social•86 days ago

So, for you dipshits who don’t understand how BCBS pays providers (or any insurance company, really), this policy likely will have NOTHING to do with what the patient will owe. It will increase the amount of the charge the healthcare providers have to write off. Calm down

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craigphd.bsky.social•86 days ago

It depends how this particular policy is written. It may very well be that the provider will bill the patient for the time of anesthesia that is not covered by BCBS. Either that or providers will choose not to accept BCBS which will make it harder to find a provider. So it will effect patients.

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elvinoray.bsky.social•83 days ago

Possibly, but eliminating cost containment will effect premiums. Not trying to defend a broken system necessarily but there is no magic fairy dust that will get rid of the gatekeepers and cost containment efforts, even in the beloved single payor system.

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oldbamaman.bsky.social•86 days ago

😡

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killingswife.bsky.social•85 days ago

their ceo must want to be next

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scobot.bsky.social•86 days ago

So team we have to get through this surgery super duper fast so we don’t get hit with overages…BCBS’s
CEO needs another jet ski.

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100austin.bsky.social•86 days ago

The wild part is that these people actually believe they are good humans and well liked among their peers. This is going to be a real shocker when they start to hear the public's disdain for them.

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kymi1994.bsky.social•86 days ago

How is this legal? With the cost of health care premiums they should be able to keep paying our costs.

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andlalune.bsky.social•86 days ago

Because the system is broken and meant to keep us sick

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teethgrinder83.bsky.social•86 days ago

The crazy thing is the sooner someone gets better after being sick the sooner they can pay back into the system with social healthcare like here in Scotland, that's why I can't understand why some voters still seem to think it's a bad thing

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fabkarenla.bsky.social•86 days ago

Masses of people in the U.S. think "That's socialism!" and they equate that with totalitarian communism. SMH

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teethgrinder83.bsky.social•85 days ago

Oh for sure, actual communists in the US are very rare anyway and like you say they equate it with totalitarianism (despite an authoritarian President about to go into office along with masses who love him) and as for socialism many don't seem to understand the many different paths it can take

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dontshootthedog.bsky.social•86 days ago

IOW,

Fuck the poors.

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metrothefox.bsky.social•86 days ago

Mmm remind me who the CEO of that is again?

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thomaswolfe.bsky.social•86 days ago

I think I heard a shot.

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sigviking.bsky.social•86 days ago

Today’s version of medical insurance is woefully inadequate to begin with because - IT IS A CLEAR CONFLICT OF INTEREST! Patients need medical care and most insurance covers want to provide the Walmart version! answer: Medicare for all. yes, that isn’t possible with the incoming administration.

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ninja4e20.bsky.social•86 days ago

What happened to a certain CEO very recently... Has to happen several times. Just like the French did.

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r1ckyjay.bsky.social•86 days ago

They didn’t learn from the last guy i guess

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malzliebchen.bsky.social•86 days ago

Someone show them the video

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2bcarlisa.bsky.social•86 days ago

Nasty Nasty work

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betharooo.bsky.social•86 days ago

How bizarre that this news broke today... after... you know...

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itmerc2024.bsky.social•86 days ago

It didn’t….it broke in november, it’s just now getting circulated.

https://www.asahq.org/advocacy-and-asapac/fda-and-washington-alerts/washington-alerts/2024/11/asa-fights-new-anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-policy-that-caps-payments-for-anesthesia-time

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betharooo.bsky.social•86 days ago

Oooh even more interesting, thanks!

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sammy1956.bsky.social•86 days ago

How is that remotely legal? Fu Blue Cross

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jim584.bsky.social•86 days ago

Can someone please tell me why we don't need national healthcare when we have companies like these?

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16rolynn.bsky.social•86 days ago

That is just crazy.

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comancheboy00.bsky.social•86 days ago

Next up for the assains bullets in the Healthcare industry is these guys.

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64dragons.bsky.social•86 days ago

Ouch

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groeblbubble.bsky.social•86 days ago

I guess they haven't watched the new yet today...

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joseortega78.bsky.social•86 days ago

These CEO’s really do want new windows in their heads it seems.

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bipolrbear.bsky.social•86 days ago

i want that for them too. so at least we are all on the same page

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theresakellybanash.bsky.social•84 days ago

I wonder how much the CEO of BCBS earns? My guess is millions. Perhaps the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare coupled with the DOJ investigation of insider trading there and its rampant and unfair denial of claims will finally force these insurers to pay claims rather than fill their pockets.

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gsgoewey.bsky.social•86 days ago

Unbelievable.

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batz07.bsky.social•86 days ago

That's insane!

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andlalune.bsky.social•86 days ago

What an evil, greedy company.

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500mgbid.bsky.social•86 days ago

the United States ladies and gentlemen

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yopete.bsky.social•85 days ago

very poor timing

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aletamosquito.bsky.social•86 days ago

Disgusting!

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nerdyrat90.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm normally a pretty chill individual who doesn't wish ill on people, but hey, CEO of BCBS, I hope you have your anesthesia cut short when you have to have surgery, then you'll know what this policy of yours will do to people first hand.

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sickofallthisshit.bsky.social•86 days ago

On the contrary, they will be labeled as a VIP patient and receive the best medical care from top to bottom.

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popcrave.com•86 days ago

https://t.co/0WBQ4Sr3bz

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scoundrel2.bsky.social•86 days ago

jfc

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happyjacks.bsky.social•85 days ago

Aside from being a patient, I am not an expert. My input is based upon my wife’s recent surgery. Upon seeing the bill, what the anesthesiologist charged, for a minor surgery, was 14K. I was in shock. We are in shock. Our system is broken. Healthcare is a human right. It needs to be. #healthcare

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fabkarenla.bsky.social•86 days ago

The Everyone Can Buy Insurance act did not make getting cured affordable.

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sasquatch1.bsky.social•86 days ago

Tell me you don't read the news before a press release without actually saying it.

I'm just saying the French found a way to solve these problems with a level of efficiency uncommon for the French...

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melodykayyoung.bsky.social•86 days ago

That is SICK.

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vero1986.bsky.social•85 days ago

Buckle up.. we’re being ruled by the oppressive rich who couldn’t give 2fks about us…and when we're pushed to the limit while these people strut around in their suits to private jets, expect many more events like this.. we’re about to see madness the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

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kg62.bsky.social•86 days ago

For profit healthcare is destroying this country for real

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walkercommas.bsky.social•86 days ago

It’s emblematic of this entire country that the rot of greed has infiltrated something so inarguably moral as keeping humans alive.

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jancb16.bsky.social•86 days ago

So, what happens? They wake up up during the surgery? What the eff are these people thinking?!

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utsavratti.bsky.social•86 days ago

Smart to announce this the same day the CEO of your competitor is gunned down. Real smart.

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indigorun.bsky.social•86 days ago

God bless america

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sentrinastrong.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is disgusting!

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sweetiesue1111.bsky.social•86 days ago

Blue Cross... don't you dare have complications during surgery or you're on your own.

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milovetic.bsky.social•85 days ago

This is... Insane? What the fuck is going on in the USA? People running businesses and corporations have lost their mind. What a dystopian future seems ahead.

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curioustore.bsky.social•85 days ago

These businesses have a board and shareholders. The CEO largely executes their vision. Lots of people behind the scenes are responsible.

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kidchicago.bsky.social•86 days ago

What that's insane

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madufoices.bsky.social•86 days ago

you USians NEED to wake the fuck up and burn this shit to the ground, you fucking cowards

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pishibrishi.bsky.social•86 days ago

Ghoulish. If there are Canadians seeing this, please stop voting conservative. We don't need this in our future.

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pamwalker.bsky.social•86 days ago

I can't imagine why that health care CEO was shot in NY!

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garibaldib.bsky.social•86 days ago

BYOA Bring your own anesthetic.

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angelica4us.bsky.social•86 days ago

We are officially in the New Medieval Dark Ages.

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kimberley9.bsky.social•85 days ago

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avalanche-andy.bsky.social•86 days ago

Getting it in before the advent of the Unaffordable Care Act that Trump, Musk and Kennedy are planning?

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fancynancy2-0.bsky.social•86 days ago

What the hell

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mlco.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is shocking

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gdcw.bsky.social•86 days ago

Don't worry trump is going to fix all that 💩not

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raptornx01.bsky.social•86 days ago

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jprimesensei.bsky.social•86 days ago

Best way to turn people off of using their services at all.
Bravo, dumb shits, bravo!

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iammrsid.bsky.social•86 days ago

…and cue the class action lawsuit.

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zrath.bsky.social•86 days ago

Stop it with the punishment fetish already!

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boyskissing420.bsky.social•86 days ago

Who's the ceo of this company? Them next please!!

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collburns.bsky.social•86 days ago

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mikembp.bsky.social•86 days ago

You may call it being a decent funking being, but in America it's called Socialism and that's darn UnAmerican. Every man for himself - if you can't afford the bills, you die. It's your own fault for not having a good job!😉

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ricpendragon.bsky.social•86 days ago

USA health care to me seems to be summed up with one old meme.
(I thank God I'm not American)

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fluke777.bsky.social•86 days ago

there is medicaid in us if you are poor. Also you can reach to your family, friends or numerous charities.

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christigarrett.bsky.social•86 days ago

Reaching out to friends and family to save you is poor governance.

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nuclearsimian.bsky.social•86 days ago

If socialism is bad, time to get rid of the army.
And the Navy.
And the Air Force.
And the Marines.
And the police.
And absolutely every other government service.

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mikembp.bsky.social•86 days ago

I don't understand - if there's Medicaid, why would you need friends, family and charities. Surely, it's one or the other?

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vis-viva.bsky.social•86 days ago

Uhm.... read the fucking room guys.

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xsucksdonkeydicks.bsky.social•86 days ago

We may have not killed all the problematic healthcare CEOs today

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patvulaj.bsky.social•86 days ago

Ah, I mean what could really go wrong? It’s not like anyone is gonna shoot the CEO, amirite? Hahahaha….Guys? Am I right?

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crock2poop.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wow!! So insurance companies are now timing surgeries?😳

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sunflowerh0ur.bsky.social•86 days ago

Also insurance companies: Why are they shooting us dead???

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oraclestwin.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wtf. Can’t wait to see what fresh hell when ACA is quashed. 😡

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noname4u.bsky.social•85 days ago

A lot of large health systems just boycotted Blue Cross Blue shield and left their system because they're pulling dirty tricks. Stuff like this shouldn't be allowed but sadly with Trump and RFK Jr are systems that fight for us are now going to be chipped away.

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ceaston05.bsky.social•86 days ago

Their CEO may want to check the news today...

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mort3301.bsky.social•85 days ago

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bishopsbeetle.bsky.social•86 days ago

so either doctors are gonna have to speed-run surgeries or you just gotta be awake ?

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daveygandthe.bsky.social•86 days ago

This country is so fucked up.

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blackcat1970.bsky.social•86 days ago

American health insurance for you….. deny deny deny, delay delay delay, when the hospitals and doctors offices go bankrupt we only have the greed of the country to blame

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unownedlib2.bsky.social•85 days ago

They’ve now backed off on that. And I think folks would have to be pretty naive to believe their retreat was unrelated to the United CEO shooting.

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geneduquette.bsky.social•86 days ago

It’s fine. They are supplying hammers.

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bwksaccount.bsky.social•86 days ago

Love that pop crave is becoming a Buzzfeed style news source. (not sarcastic)

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whalepsychiatrist.bsky.social•86 days ago

And people are wondering why CEO's of insurance companies are getting targeted.

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mountainmomma31.bsky.social•86 days ago

So they just want us to die then?

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slendy5127.bsky.social•86 days ago

Not before you give them your entire life’s savings

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mountainmomma31.bsky.social•86 days ago

Great point!

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whatsupwithjes.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is crazy

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legendaryarturo.bsky.social•86 days ago

That's literally evil

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stayinalive2.bsky.social•86 days ago

They are telling people that it is in order to keep their healthcare costs down because doctors over bill. While there may be a few that do, I can assure you that many are barely paying off their education debt years after graduating thanks to crappy reimbursements from insurers.

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northstar1939.bsky.social•86 days ago

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hoosiergreg.bsky.social•86 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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iantos.bsky.social•86 days ago

Pretty bold choice considering recent events.

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osrjacinto.bsky.social•86 days ago

@dududaro.bsky.social caralho é o plano da maria nucci gualtieri "o estado não cobre procedimentos medicos advindos de crimes sexuais"

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pixelsinvalhalla.bsky.social•86 days ago

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justinobrien.bsky.social•86 days ago

🤞🤞🤞

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humidbeing.bsky.social•86 days ago

for no particular reason, the CEO of blue cross blue shield is Kim Keck

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nikki-yazzy.bsky.social•86 days ago

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brambling2.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm still waiting for jigsaw to grab the rest of these guys

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digitalwarchild.bsky.social•86 days ago

Here’s a list of countries that offer “free” or universal health care:

Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Belgium
Bhutan
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
France
…

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dugginsnews.bsky.social•83 days ago

Denmark and the state of Alabama both face a rising caseload of diabetes. Former Alabama Public Radio intern James Niiler reports next week from Aarhus on a possible Danish solution.

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digitalwarchild.bsky.social•86 days ago

Ghana
Greece
Hong Kong
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kuwait
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
North Korea
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
…

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digitalwarchild.bsky.social•86 days ago

Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Seychelles
Singapore
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom

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ljubica1.bsky.social•85 days ago

And then Americans wonder why we Brits love our NHS so much. Yes it has flaws and isn't perfect, but that would NEVER happen here.

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whitegayfriend.bsky.social•86 days ago

Imagine you run out of anesthesia deductible and you’re broke so they just wake you up

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iainsut.bsky.social•86 days ago

Midway through your heart surgery

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karimarie.bsky.social•86 days ago

Or brain surgery. My brain surgery was supposed to be 14-16 hours. It took 23 hours.

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sv-rub-a-dub.bsky.social•86 days ago

Interesting - I've been under the impressed that people are generally conscious during brain work with only local so they can monitor whether they've caused damage. Is that not a thing anymore?

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bwksaccount.bsky.social•86 days ago

you wouldn't wake up during the surgery, but you would wake up bankrupted.

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patattat.bsky.social•86 days ago

You’re underestimating how little they think of you as a human

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actually-patricius.bsky.social•86 days ago

absolutely not going to happen

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emmettito.bsky.social•86 days ago

I hear it’s a good time to be a CEO of a health insurance company 💀

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billievme.bsky.social•86 days ago

Damn. My new plan only covers a bottle of whiskey and a leather strap to bite on.

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doscojones.bsky.social•86 days ago

Huh.
What kind of whisky?

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leatherox.bsky.social•86 days ago

Some well brand. You thought your insurance would pay for Maker’s Mark?

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billievme.bsky.social•85 days ago

Let’s just say the leather strap is the better tasting of the two

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losgatossinmadrid.bsky.social•85 days ago

1. I haven’t read the article. 2. I’m not defending this decision by BCBS. I’ve worked for a couple of decades in the healthcare anti-fraud space & this sounds to me as a new medical guideline to address what may have been identified as an abusive practice by some providers. Meaning… 1/

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losgatossinmadrid.bsky.social•85 days ago

…documentation from the hospital/surgical practice prior to payment to substantiate the medical need for the procedure. If I were the patient/insured & the provider billed me for a denied procedure, I wld appeal the insurance if your provider has appealed & failed. Don’t pay provider; appeal 1st.

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losgatossinmadrid.bsky.social•85 days ago

…may have identified large overpayments. When insurance companies identify areas/trends of billing abuse, they will address them with new medical policy, and in turn place edits in their claims processing systems to stop claims that fit the parameters. This means that BCBS may request extra…3/

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losgatossinmadrid.bsky.social•85 days ago

…that in all likelihood BCBS has done data analysis and identified some providers/medical practices who may have been using anesthesia add-on procedure codes that fall outside of what is usually or customary for certain surgeries. Very possible BCBS has seen a significant spike in billing and … 2/

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the8bitidiot.bsky.social•85 days ago

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mzmazz.bsky.social•86 days ago

No sense of irony to release this on a day another healthcare insurance executive is murdered in NYC.

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christigarrett.bsky.social•86 days ago

It’s been clarified elsewhere that they didn’t. It’s just recirculating now.

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gtg56.bsky.social•86 days ago

Kim Keck's comments have been turned off on LinkedIn

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fresh12.bsky.social•86 days ago

"Innovative ideas to take on some of the nation's greatest challenges." Ideas such as outsourcing the great challenge of deciding whether to let sick people live or die to artificial intelligence.

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nomorenews.bsky.social•86 days ago

Their CEO better lay low.

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reginaphalagex.bsky.social•86 days ago

I remember when Blue Cross/Blue Shield was the gold standard. If you were lucky enough to have that, you were set. But, that was 50 years ago 😔

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oscarsmother.bsky.social•86 days ago

Hahaha, I was going to say, not in my lifetime! 😬

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reginaphalagex.bsky.social•86 days ago

It was when I was a kid, and heard adults talking about it. But, yeah I'm old 🤷

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citroends.bsky.social•86 days ago

...and Kaiser was ranked at the bottom. A complete flip —

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reginaphalagex.bsky.social•86 days ago

We didn't have Kaiser in Michigan, but I remember my first job when I moved to California. My coworkers and I were discussing health plans and I remember him laughing and saying "I have Kaiser" with a roll of his eyes. Early '80's.

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reginaphalagex.bsky.social•86 days ago

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canyoncreek19.bsky.social•86 days ago

Just wonderful!

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nugins.bsky.social•86 days ago

Read the room

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jd1025.bsky.social•86 days ago

Keep them lobbyists in Washington and this will never get better. Money, money, and more money! That’s what our politicians are in it for.

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the-dallas-denali.bsky.social•86 days ago

Just wake me up if the prices goes up I’ll have to deal with the pain

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nuclearsimian.bsky.social•86 days ago

I mean, they need to pay attention.

Someone just shot the aristocrat that was "employed" as the CEO of United for the horrific abuses that company did.

Or they just can...not pay attention, the same thing happens, and the class war actually turns into a war from both sides.

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