Medical Insurance and Other Ways of Paying

[ndrosen]

Given that under the late Brian Thompson’s leadership, UnitedHealthcare had enormously increased its rate of claim denial, so that it had a much higher denial rate than other medical insurers, one can sympathize with the man who assassinated Mr. Thompson. Other insurance CEO’s may find themselves motivated not to push things too far, and I am inclined to wonder how many people died before their time over the past few years because UnitedHealthcare refused to pay for operations and other procedures which legitimately should have been covered.

Nonetheless, it is important to keep in mind that with a single payer system, or some other system, it would still not be possible to provide everyone with unlimited medical care, and treatments would have to be denied, one way or another. Dishonest Donald, who had promised to replace Obamacare with something different, that would be wonderful, asked, after becoming president, “Who knew that things were so complicated?” People who had studied the matter knew.

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[warriorsavant]

For essentially everything, there is always a huge difference between the average joe / demagogue exclaiming "just do it," and someone who knows what they are doing figuring out how to get it done. If you try to explain it to someone, they never want to hear it, "I don't care about the grubby little details." Yeah, those details, and all the time, effort and expertise involved, are how things actually get done.