Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing

Post by tptacek » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 1:26 AM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #59

tptacek wrote: post #29

It's mostly not rational. For instance, much of the conversation over the last day has been about Anthem pushing back on anesthesiology pay on the East Coast. That's people angry about their insurers working to make surgeries cost less by employing the literal guideline Medicare uses, and yet people online were overtly suggesting Anthem's CEO be murdered over it. Incoherent. This won't win me any points in this parti…

The notion that the providers are the ones sucking up all the money in the healthcare industry is certainly... novel. The majority of people in this particular industry have nothing to do with actually providing health care, just as the majority of employees at a major university have never stood in front of a blackboard.

Post by coldpie » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 1:27 AM UTC

s1artibartfast wrote: post #72

justinclift wrote: post #69

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> We have a system of laws and courts to decide what is criminal. Good when it works, but what happens when it fails?

yeah, blood in the street and mass death and destruction. Everyone killing everyone.

Post by vundercind » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 1:28 AM UTC

s1artibartfast wrote: post #82

vundercind wrote: post #65

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The trouble is that nothing productive was going to come of anything else, either. That’s where these reactions come from.

Yes, there is a lot of frustrations. Voters disagree on what they want. That does not justify people to start shooting people when they dont get their way.

Post by adgjlsfhk1 » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 1:29 AM UTC

defen wrote: post #52

Dalewyn wrote: post #40

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>What I do find disappointing is the lack of concern This is (was) the CEO of the largest health insurer in the country which has shown a lack of concern for paying out insurance or securing data both private and medical. Their data leak this year is second only to National Public Data's leak (also this year) of practically every single SSN on the planet and arguably worse because their leak also contains medical dat…

> this guy is also about the most unsympathizable man in the country. There's no way that is true. It's only remotely possibly true if you're only talking about people who at least nominally obey the rules and laws of society. You don't actually think that he was worse than a murderer, or a rapist, or a child abuser, of which we have many, many thousands in this country.

Post by tptacek » Fri, Dec 06, 2024, 1:30 AM UTC

cs702 wrote: post #71

Health "insurance" companies in the US are not actually, primarily insurers. For the most part, they are not in the business of insuring rare events. Maybe they were primarily in the insurance business at some point in the past, but today they are mainly in the business of entrenching themselves in the middle of all interactions between patients, doctors, and hospitals, and extracting rents from all of them. Health "…