For-profit insurance is itself a conflict of interest and unethical. How can one expect an organization with a profit motive behave in the interests of the people they claim to insure (other than dead people dont pay them anymore)?
Im of the opinion that a government should run some form of medical insurance for this exact reason. Private corporations should not be allowed to comodify modern essentials of life and I feel like this should extend health care.
They got their Death Panels, they just wanted to make sure they were profitable and not socialized.
Conservatives: ranting about OMG there will be government death panels…
Medical insurance industry: that’s a great idea!
My coworker needed to have a heart monitor replaced and the fucking parasites insurance company said no, he didn’t have a stroke yet…
The fucking parasites insurance companies are literally telling you fuck off and have a stroke, if you survive then we’ll cough up your money you’ve been paying us forever enough for a replacement…
I call it practicing medicine without a license, and it should be treated as such
-signed, someone who’s family is stuck in that system
Remember all the hysteria over “death panels” during the ACA debates? Fooled you, they were already here, invented by insurance companies.
This isn’t news, but I’ll accept that there are people who still haven’t learned this and suppose that it’s still worth publishing.
It’s getting worst though. A lot worst. They keep adding more and more layers to make it so difficult and convoluted you give up. Last year my insurance started using an external pharmacy for my meds. Fine. But my meds to need to be administered by a nurse in a hospital. So I need to get prior authorization from my doctor to my insurance who then approves the pharmacy to do the meds. But there are 30% copays now so I use a third party company that works with the company that makes the meds to comp the 30%. Then I need to get the hospital to call the pharmacy to order meds on my behalf and send it to the hospital, not me. Then I can finally schedule my appointment to actually get the shot in the hospital. I do this circus once a year, every year because they change one layer every year and so I have to figure out the new rules. It’s pure madness.
This is exactly me trying to get ahold of immunosuppressants to treat my Crohn’s Disease. I have to go through a specialty pharmacy owned by the insurance company. They bill to SaveOn, an assistance program, because my 30% copay works out to over $8K. They additionally bill against a discount/coupon program. If anything gets screwed up between the five systems of record I have to keep my data in (via phone calls, of course, because the self-service web portals are designed to give you incorrect data and accomplish nothing), then I spend weeks trying to correct everything and wind up getting my meds late.
What is the point of this comment then?
Of course there are people that haven’t heard of this or don’t understand this. The world didn’t freeze and people didn’t stop being born, new humans growing up and becoming adults and just learning about various parts of the world everyday don’t know about these sorts of things.
Education and information is a perpetual struggle and a perpetual effort.
