That's the sentiment of many. In the wake of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last Wednesday outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel many folk have gone on social media and unleashed a torrent of vitriol against the health insurance industry in general and Brian Thompson and United Healthcare in particular. Seems some ai-driven program denied the claims of at least one-third of United Healthcare subscribers who actually had to use their insurance. The wonders of our health insurance system - you pay into the program your whole life, you get really sick one day and finally get a notice in the mail "Claim Denied" and have to foot the bill yourself. You're not Diddy. Never understood how so many cancer survivors and their families use up their entire life savings and eventually go bankrupt. I thought that's why we have health insurance. Hannity would probably say at least that's not socialism. Health care in America. I thought Obama fixed all that. I can't wait for the Singularity.
I guess that is a sore spot for nearly everyone. Apparently Healthcare Insurance CEOs need a security detail. My take is this - Medicare is straightforward - no small print and the cover quite a bit and you are pre-paid through your workplace. The private insurance is supposed to help (I have medical and drugs). Private = profit. That is why this time of the year retired people change their providers thinking to save a buck or two. When Musk talks of privatizing healthcare (to save money ha ha) cold shivers run down my back.
ReplyDeleteSciatica? You can call it socialism. Social = community, so you would be ratting on yourself. Good mood here, mailing out about a
hundred Christmas letters.
I hear places like CVS are taking down photos of their executives. Medicare does cover a lot. Family personal experience. Medicaid covers even more but that's for poor folk. Eldercare lawyers are good at getting older people on Medicaid but lots of stipulations. Bank account can't go over a certain amount. Used to be talk of the public option or buying into Medicare. How does Diddy Care compare?
ReplyDeleteHow does a scientific materialist such as yourself get into the spirit of writing Christmas cards?
ReplyDeletei turn into a five year old for the season.
Delete"Assad Regime Falls in Syria" Any prognostications?
ReplyDeleteStill studying the issue. Far as I know Trump hasn't taken credit for this one. Interesting things happening during Biden's last few days in office.
DeleteI see they're diving in Central Park I'm guessing to find the gun. This will be covered by Nancy Grace some day. Ever watch her? She looks at the camera and starts getting very intense and her eyes. I wouldn't want to get on her bad side.
ReplyDeleteMy sister was a big N. Grace fan. Loved true crime, read all the books. Had insomnia until Alzheimer's took over.
DeleteI suspect the assassin is in one of those big drones flying around there.
ReplyDelete50K reward being offered by the FBI. 10K being kicked in by the NYPD. Might be hard getting tips from all those denied coverage.
ReplyDeleteThey said his back pack was full of Monopoly money he stole
Deletepreviously from the victim. New movie coming up? One of those never enders like DB Cooper.
Something tells me Tom Hanks will be in it.
DeleteHealth insurance. Things have gotten so bad maybe Price Is Right should offer to pay people's medical bills. Spin the Wheel get a free colonoscopy.
ReplyDeleteNorway is looking better. Cradle to grave healthcare, a lot of blonds, no Vikings left and a surplus of smoked fish. Ooofta, don'tcha know.
ReplyDeleteI always liked sardines.
ReplyDeleteKeeping busy here. Keeps me from getting into trouble at Shaw's.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has the right to make a living. I don't begrudge anyone but hearing it costs upwards of 10K to have a funeral for someone. Do you have to talk to Tom Selleck now and AAG first before you bury someone?
ReplyDeleteI do check out Shaw's once in a while and I get your comment that Russia always has their fingers in the American pie but her blog makes it out like Trump's a Russian agent.
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting on my tablet today btw.
Yeah, I complain over at Shaw's. Not as foamy mouth mean as her regulars. The only thing I can do at GeeeZ is say I like a comment. Like when someone says something rational, ya know?
DeleteGeeez has WordPress. That has a blacklist option. Google Blogger doesn't. I guess she sees you as the uncle who comes over and farts a lot. Gotta leave now.
DeleteMy cable TV and computer place is switching to some sort of wi-fi.
ReplyDeleteHave to had for middle daughter to come at Christmas and figure it out for us. Same place had a great e-mail service and dumped it. GMail
not nearly as good. Progress.
Wall Street - Stock Market - supposed to fuel the economy. Often does the opposite. Consider the declining railroads: One pushed 'operating ratio', you cut that profits go up and your shares go up. To do that, you lay off maintenance, engineers, office staff. Many jobs lost. Many customers lost. Same way with health insurance - mergers, MBAs telling physicians what they can or cannot do, to heck with the patient. Patents for dozens of years keeping the
ReplyDeleteprice out of range (Eloquis comes to mind) and spend more on TV
ads than research. Free market sounds good, but considering the main driver is greed (one of the seven deadly sins). So I invest in the market and probably should go to confession.
What would Ayn Rand say?
ReplyDeleteAyn would say "BB get lost"
ReplyDeleteHave to laugh. Have my bank's app on my phone. Check my balances every week. As I said just mailed in the last installment of my Yonkers property tax had to be a few days back. CASHED ALREADY! All my other bills take time to clear. I mean geeez.
ReplyDeleteWow! Bank must have an flashing alarm bell for when property taxes
ReplyDeletecome in. "Red Light Special, rush it Martha"
Must need a new snowplow or something.
ReplyDeleteI've had bills from contractors take awhile to clear. Nobody's in that much of a hurry except the Yonkers property tax dept. Probably have some low-level schlub take the checks to the bank everyday then has to get coffee for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI see Trump and Musk want to privatize the post office. Sounds like a challenge to me. You know, a gov't operation since the pony express, neither snow, nor rain nor dark of night. It would be like health insurance. "Hey I never got last year's mail!" "Read the fine print, sucker". Private enterprise has proven it has no business in the area of public service. Let me know how it goes when they privatize Social Security. Thankfully by then I'll be in lot 17A, row
ReplyDelete34, honored veterans section of the place across the street. Oh,
and scatter a bit of Prince Albert, huh? Oh dang, I gotta being cheering up for Christmas. Kind of confusing.