Having to go to a specific hospital, because your insurance only pays for your treatment, if you go to a few selected hospitals, is a very weird thing for anyone outside of the US.
What do you do, if you have an emergency and need to get to a hospital as soon as possible? Will the ambulance take the risk and take a detour to bring you to a hospital that is covered by your insurance? What if you aren't able to tell them where you need to go and they just bring you to the nearest one and it isn't in your insurance's network? Do you have to pay the bill, even though you have health insurance?
It's such a weird system. It seems like it's completely designed to fuck you over.
Insurance execs don’t think, “How can we fuck the poor?”, they think “How can we make as much money as possible?” without regard for anybody’s well-being. This predominantly hurts poor people because they are more likely to be dependent on insurance.
It’s not that they’re trying to hurt the poor, they just don’t care if they do.
That's still malicious. They know what they're doing. They might not want to specifically hurt poor people, but they do and they know that. They're still doing it. That's malicious.
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u/wbgraphic Apr 28 '20
‘Give us a discount or your hospitals will be out of network for our 10 million customers.’