They’re afraid!

@196

I think the health insurance companies are actually taken by surprise by the amount of people who sincerely wish them death. Maybe we will see some almost-meaningful change soon?

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
    link
    fedilink
    1612 months ago

    The reason that insurance companies currently exist is to make money. That’s the ONLY reason. Until that changes, the system is likely to get worse, not better.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        232 months ago

        When these claims are denied there are so many pawns in the system that it is so easy to get really angry at and have easy access to. I’m really Glad that at least this went to the top and no one closer to ground level just having to carry out uhcs terrible policies was the victim of this rage.

    • @sartalon
      link
      322 months ago

      This, so much. If a CEO makes a conscientious decision that makes stockholders less money, he gets fired. Stockholders sue companies over decisions that are considered less profitable.

      And I don’t mean people who invest their 401k’s in mutual funds bullshit. I mean the activist multi millionaire assholes that own full percentage points of companies. These people are the ones that lobby companies and politicians and shape the legal and market landscape.

      These fucking people have zero accountability to anyone.

      And they convince themselves they have every right to be that way.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        182 months ago

        I mean the activist multi millionaire assholes that own full percentage points of companies. These people are the ones that lobby companies and politicians and shape the legal and market landscape.

        aka The Big Club

        (NSFW - language)

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      Essentially they exist to make the cost of the risk they agree to bear reasonable and affordable to their customers.

      The second they fail to serve that purpose they become useless.

      Their very existence depends on the same thing that has made them into the shitstains they are: Greed.