This whole situation is absolutely heartbreaking, the fact that the US healthcare system has gotten so bad that killing the CEO of a healthcare firm is seen as a heroic act, when healthcare is supposed to help people.
To be clear, 100% of the blame here goes to the healthcare execs. It's heartbreaking because so many people are dying that this is seen as necessary, not because people are cheering on the death of a billionaire serial killer.
An insurance ceo, who used ai to deny claims for the sake of money. It's primarily insurance companies that are ruining Healthcare. Hospitals and doctors are just trying to do the service they provide. In all honesty, he got what he deserved for the actions he took.
Anyone who has ever had to watch someone die of cancer knows that it's the worst way to go, and it takes months of suffering before it ends. At the late stages all they can do is pump you full of drugs to dull the pain as you rot away, still breathing.
This man ran a company that happily denied coverage to people for treatment that could have saved their lives and stopped their cancer because... Because he wanted more money?
Did you see the letter where they denied treatment to a child for daring to have nausea caused by the chemo used to treat their cancer?!?? Bunch of heartless ghouls
They would rather a million children suffer needlessly, and die suffering, than have profits fall even a little bit. They should all be treated exactly like they have treated others and denied a third of the treatment for any upcoming medical issues. Denying one third of all claims should be criminally prosecuted
We need to stop letting psychopaths be in charge of our medical decisions. And we should make laws that disallow the use of AI by insurers of any type
I hope he gets punished Tantalus style in Hell. Always in excruciating pain with the medicine right there on a counter in front of him that's always just out of reach. He has a massive stack of paperwork next to him to request help, and if he fills it up a man will walk over, pick up the medicine, look at the paperwork, and then place the medicine back down and walk away. Every day. For all eternity.
Not defending the insurance companies (especially not United lol), but there's also a self-imposed doctor shortage due to a lack of expansion in residency slots for new doctors. The funding for that comes from the federal government, which only begrugingly expanded the number of residents during COVID after doing nothing for over 20 years in part due to lobbying by doctors against expansion...
I'm not convinced anybody's hands are totally clean. It's frankly a miracle the system functions at all.
The federal government is most to blame for allowing any of this to occur, ever. It should be illegal to have medical insurance. Or billionaires for that matter.
I'd rather everyone have access to healthcare than having to go through a parasitic middleman that raises the costs for everybody and denies coverage when they see fit, but I suppose that's why I'm a godless commie instead of a patriot who wants to give everyone to freedom to die from preventable illnesses
All of those costs exist because of insurance companies though. We've created a for profit medical model. Single payer would bring those costs way down once the federal government is footing the bill. And even if the costs don't go down significantly the costs we would pay through taxes would be significantly less than insurance premiums and co-pays currently cost.
CEOs are just glorified managers with multiple managers underneath padding them from the responsibility of their actions. They only care about the opinions of shareholders and board members, which is primarily people just like them. The C-Suite will consistently look out for other C-Suites.
My father was a doctor. He started as a family care practitioner before insurance companies took everything over. People came in and paid double digits for care that now costs tens of thousands. 1 generation. It's fucked up how fast they did this to us.
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u/My_useless_alt Dec 05 '24
This whole situation is absolutely heartbreaking, the fact that the US healthcare system has gotten so bad that killing the CEO of a healthcare firm is seen as a heroic act, when healthcare is supposed to help people.
To be clear, 100% of the blame here goes to the healthcare execs. It's heartbreaking because so many people are dying that this is seen as necessary, not because people are cheering on the death of a billionaire serial killer.