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If US citizens die due to this, I am 100% down with bringing the full might of our military down on the state/group that did this. No mercy.
what if the state actor who did this has nuclear weapons?
Anyone who has been to one in the last year, pre-covid even, understands the ferris wheel of nurses and doctors that churn through the butter of what goes on there.
These weren't exactly hardened targets to begin with.
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Health insurance premiums are just total healthcare costs for the insured lives plus x% for operations of the health insurance company. If all hospitals have to raise prices to meet IT costs, then presumably the total cost of healthcare for the insured lives goes up, and hence the health insurance premium has to go up. So yes, typically if your vendor's suppliers increase price, then your vendor will increase their p…
> health insurance is already a low margin business I’d like to know much, much more about this statement.
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> health insurance is already a low margin business I’d like to know much, much more about this statement.
By the ACA law health insurance companies have to pay out at least 80% of premiums on claims. The cost of running the company and any profit has to come out of the other 20%. 5% of billions of dollars is huge in absolute figures but as a percentage falls in line with other industries.
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Do you blame the dev? Do you blame the HR system that hired them? How about the manager that pushed them too much? What about his manager? Is it the VP of IT's fault, even if he didn't know the technical specifics? Nothing is any one person's fault. Blame is a stupid waste of time.
At some point we will sit down and recognize that calling programmers "engineers" was a mistake. True engineers make guarantees within clearly specified limits and take on liability for those guarantees. Modern technology companies claim many things while owning little, if any, responsibility.
Bad health IT is a public health issue. Perhaps it’s time for hospitals to regularly report their OS versions and patch levels to our local health departments.
My hospital offline for a whole week because they got hit by a ransomware attack, and they use Epic. I asked someone I knew at Epic what she knew about it, and confirmed that my hospital was up-to-date on the latest version of their software and following most of their security protocols. My initial thought was they had weak IT security and now I’m not so sure.
Is the US ransom-ware-ing Russia? Or anything similar?
But Ryuk is not the Russian government anyways
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> health insurance is already a low margin business I’d like to know much, much more about this statement.
By the ACA law health insurance companies have to pay out at least 80% of premiums on claims. The cost of running the company and any profit has to come out of the other 20%. 5% of billions of dollars is huge in absolute figures but as a percentage falls in line with other industries.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-10-28/u-s-h...
Patients are being turned away: Wyckoff Hospital hit by computer virus
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/jju0rp/wyckoff_hospita...
If this attack results in actual loss of life, I firmly believe the US should ensure that there are real-world physical consequences for these criminals. They cannot be described as anything less than the worst humanity has to offer. A failure to respond with meaningful and severe consequences for those responsible (assuming this is attack can be confidently attributed to a particular threat actor) opens the floodgat…
Floodgates... TGD