Anthem pulled back that announcement about not covering all anesthesia real fucking quick when they saw the reaction to the news.
I didn’t realize they actually backpedaled instead of just trying to brush it under the rug: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-time-limits-anesthesia-surgery-rcna183035
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
*breathe*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I think they actually feel a little unsafe. Holy shit YES
(It actually probably wasn’t due to this. They only retracted the policy in one state)
Is this how we actually make social progress? Because if this is the only effective tool we have left…
When peaceful options such as strikes, protests, and lobbying do not work. Once, people hit the tipping point of “I have reasons not to die to fuck it, I have nothing left.” People will choose violence.
Add legislation, regulation, and prosecution to the list of failed peaceful attempts as well. The citizens have tried, and tried, and tried peaceful approaches. Almost nothing works anymore, because the rich have dismantled the US.
Soap box
Ballot box
Ammo Box < Healthcare Insurance CEOs made it to here by ignoring the other two.
It was bound to get to this point eventually. Who was it who said something about what happens when all avenues for change are removed except for the point of a blade?
Many have said similar things through the years, perhaps most appropriately from a US President only 60 years ago. On March 13, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”.
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They’ve forgotten that all of the tools they’ve rendered inert were there to prevent us from doing this.
Look once is a fluke or vendita, but if this becomes a pattern…
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Anthem PR guy: To be clear, of course we’ll never deny payment for medically necessary anesthesia services!
Anthem CEO: hehehe see what we did there? That’s right, our policy is that after an arbitrary amount of time set by us, anesthesia is no longer medically necessary. Ha! Hahaha! Muaaaaah ha ha! high fives shareholders
Wow, can’t believe they reversed course immediately. Their CEO just have been shitting bricks.
Maybe these shit bags are finally learning that their customers are humans, and humans can be just as bad as a cornered animal when the right situations occur.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that is quite nearly enough.
I have the feeling insurers may want to review their existence as middlemen at all.
They’ll just wait for a better news cycle.
but CT only?
Sounds like they’re finally aware that people besides their customers can die in agony
The American side of the internet has been absolutely savage today…and I fucking love it.
Someone is pearl clutching at me on Bluesky for saying how delighted I am, and saying how this guy has a family. Well so so the people he denies health care to, especially this kid.
“Have a heart, you mongrels! Are we condoning murder now?”
Murder is for people. Extermination is for pests.
I like to think of it as monster hunting
Pest control: https://youtu.be/FBzZycw9APw
- Doctor Who
It’s worse, they fucking approved the chemotherapy, but not the anti nausea drugs for it. Absolute monsters, “oh we’ll save your life kiddo, but we’re going to make you suffer for it”.
They’re calling the shooter The Adjuster now. I love it. Adjust many more of them…
Where are they calling him that?
It’s floating around Bluesky and Facebook.
Screw his family. They’re enablers and collaborators.
They have his 10 million dollar salary to dry their tears with while other people have pain and death because of it.
If Kamala shot a health insurance ceo she’d’ve won every state. Economic populism is wildly popular here
Instead she couldn’t even commit to keeping Lina Khan on the job. That tea was weak.
But somehow it’s the left’s fault she lost because checks notes they accurately said, repeatedly, that tacking hard to the right yet again was a losing strategy.
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Yeah, he should have thought about how he was dressed (in the blood of the insured) in that part of town.
This guy gets it
If it was a real oligarchy, the body has ways to shut it down.
CEO’s getting shot is just a fact of life now. Much like our public shootings.
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The public pays for coverage and expects to be covered. If the insurers think the cost is too high then they should just increase premiums instead of denying coverage under existing contracts. Simple like that.
Or, get rid of insurers completely and move to a single payer system without parasitic middlemen.
On single payer, very complex procedures like organ transplants, tumor resections in complicated places (ie neurosurgery) become completely out of reach of normal people. That is also extreme and undesirable.
Sure, you could just get denied by a private insurer and end up bankrupt or dead instead 🤡
See, there is a qualitative difference there. Not being able to pay single payer for a procedure that is way too expensive is one thing. The other, is paying for insurance coverage and the insurer acting on bad faith to not deliver what the contract said it would.
The latter is just fraud but in America the judiciary lets this happen as it is dysfunctional as well.
Unlike the current system, where healthcare becomes completely out of reach of normal people.
More like “Frugally and correctly spent”
If Harris had promised to publicly execute every insurance CEO she’d have won.
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot a CEO, okay, and I wouldn’t lose a single voter.
- Alternate universe Kamala Harris who wins in a landslide.
Aren’t we supposed to celebrate when an evil person is brought to justice?
Tbh that is why we should make memes that casually mention this very tragic incident whenever health insurance companies suggest any policy that sucks more money out of ordinary people, nurses and doctors’ pockets.
🎶 He had it comin’ 🎶
He only had himself to blame.
And I would definitely have done the same.
“We all have it comin’, kid.”
–William Munny
I’m not a psychopath but when I heard the BBC’s coverage of it… I couldn’t feel bad for the guy, if what they reported is true
Don’t feel bad at all.
I love this doctor
I think “butthead” is too polite
One of the doctors I work with is moving back to the US, and I can’t understand why. Why would you want to deal with these companies and jump through all these miserable hoops? Canadian health care is far from perfect but it’s pretty much a one stop shop for billing.
Is anyone doing merch for this yet?
I’m working on it
Deny, Defend, Depose, Die
I would love wearing a shirt like that
Deny, Defend, Depose, Decompose also has a nice ring to it.
Oh someone at least make a meme of that.
Check out cola corp.
I emailed them last night and there’s nothing official yet but dude mocked up his shirt for me right away…
God I hope so.
Wait they’re talking about lead in gasoline? I don’t mainstream news much
It used hence why boomers are so braindead and lack any common sense on how to run a functioning society.
Don’t forget the old lead water pipes. Because we didn’t learn anything from the fall of the Roman Empire.
Like the fact that diversity kept it together and attempting to enforce unity of culture shattered it?
Or that a great way to win loyal allies is to generously reward them with citizenship benefits, while making treaties with barbarians to have them defeat your enemies and then snubbing them is a great way to suddenly have a bunch of new enemies you need to find new allies to fight?
Or that having the military meddle in the affairs of civil government tends to get quite expensive and end up quite ruinous?
Gosh, there really are a lot of things that went wrong. I guess lead pipes go on the pile too, and maybe “climate change can fuck shit up really badly”.
I sensing a consensus from today’s CEO away.
What SM is that? Dun think I bin done did seened it befowa.
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/youre-fucked-acquittal-officer-brailsford-and
The two words were written on the dust cover of the AR-15 rifle Braisford used to kill Shaver: “You’re fucked.”
same energy; other side of the short sharp stick
The difference being that one was a filthy dirty cop doing filthy dirty cop shit, and the Adjuster who is a folk hero who deserves sainthood. Both sides my ass.
Practice critical thinking and try again. You’ll get why it’s not the same eventually. I believe in you!
