The US Healthcare Mass Debate

[Brian Peacock]

lol. I admire their attempt to shift the narrative but they're not really getting what Musk is saying are they?

[Tero]

Meme about bicyclist
https://www.threads.net/@menshumor/post ... WeeLkIbEVA

[Tero]

[Tero]

American feature: sue sue sue. malpractice insurance.

Doctor unable to operate on ankle:
https://www.threads.net/@commiepsycholo ... f9ACBr8zgw

billhensley58
1habout an hour ago
Couldn’t Brian MD pay his deductible, since he feels so bad ?

southernmic
35m35 minutes ago
No, because that then changes Dr Brian’s liability insurance status. He’s no longer simply an employee performing the surgery, he has now paid for it, he’s a partial consumer/customer, which will invalidate his liability insurance.

[Tero]

wadeanes
5m5 minutes ago
“People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.”
- Luigi Mangione

[Tero]

frenemy_of_the_people
39m39 minutes ago
The problem isn’t that Americans use too much health care.
The problem is we have a system that punishes us for using health care. So we delay care until it becomes much harder and expensive to treat.
We don’t use too much, we use too little, too late.

[Tero]

ACA only put premiums under control. The rest is a mess.

“This really is a paradox,” said Emanuel, going through a list of progressive changes that have taken root since the ACA went into effect. “That doesn’t mean the system is working well. That’s hardly how we experience it.”

Instead, he said, consumer experience of the law is often typified by “prior authorization, inability to find a doctor, shortages of common medications like amoxicillin and asthma stuff people need”, and the “burnout level” of doctors and nurses still typify the American health system, said Emanuel.
UnitedHealth Group is also ranked as the eighth-largest company on Fortune’s global index – ahead of ExxonMobil, Shell, Google parent company Alphabet, Volkswagen, GM and JPMorgan Chase. That’s up from 10th globally in 2023 and way up from 63rd in 2012, one year after the passage of Obamacare.

Other healthcare giants also rank in the top companies in the US and world: CVS, a pharmacy that now also owns the health insurance company Aetna and pharmacy benefit manager Caremark, is the sixth on the US list.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-shooting

[Sean Hayden]

I'm sympathetic about burnout. They're just swamped all the time. I can see this in their messaging too, with campaigns desperately trying to educate people about when to visit a doctor vs the emergency room, and when you should just stay home. This study claims some 10% of ER visits are non-urgent. It has to be possible to reduce that.

[Brian Peacock]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder resulted in the share price going up.

[L'Emmerdeur]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder resulted in the share price going up.

It's unlikely that the corporation will be reconsidering its draconian denial of coverage policy. It is necessary as far as it's concerned, to 'maximise shareholder value.' Terrorist acts will not deter its noble pursuit of profit.

[Tero]

Replace CEO with AI.

[Brian Peacock]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder resulted in the share price going up.

It's unlikely that the corporation will be reconsidering its draconian denial of coverage policy. It is necessary as far as it's concerned, to 'maximise shareholder value.' Terrorist acts will not deter its noble pursuit of profit.

The phrase 'stepping into dead man's shoes' probably won't be brought up at the next board meeting.

[Tero]

1elizabeth_jacobs
38m38 minutes ago
Trump and RFK Jr. want to end childhood vaccine programs. Infants are going to die or develop lifelong conditions. Autism rates will not drop. We may lose herd immunity. And every day I will remind people exactly why it happened and exactly who is to blame. The result will be inevitable and there will be no way to hide it or blame it on anyone else.

[Brian Peacock]

Luigi Mangione's manifesto. nothing very surprising.

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

[pErvinalia]

Apparently the ladies are hot for him. When is the Netflix special due?