It's more than just denied claims. It's about the entirety of society being turned into a squid game which shits on everyone who's actually trying to work together instead of competing with each other.
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This! We are told that the best way forward is constantly fighting against each other. That works to make the rich richer, but virtually everyone would have a better life if we just didn't do it.
sometimes I wish there was a way to give awards to comments.
Forget about denied claims. I'm paying more in healthcare premiums than the tax would be for better coverage... All so middlemen can get paid millions to make everything about it worse
Exactly, the claims are just the tip. It's the fact that we're getting fleeced and not getting what we collectively paid for.
Well that's the problem... we're not collectively paying for anything. We're in a bunch of small groups paying significantly more than we need to be. There's way more overhead running separate insurance companies AND each company gets a worse deal on drugs because they're buying less.
Those two things are how I've swayed several conservatives into supporting universal healthcare...you have to make it about the money. Most don't realize they're already subsidizing the poor and sick with their premiums and that better coverage for everyone would cost less if it was centralized. They don't care that the lower class struggles...but they might care that it makes economic sense to collectively bargain.
All of the news channels end their stories with, "of course this is not the way to deal with the situation."
Ok, then tell us, what is the way? What's the magic phone number? Who do we have to fuck to get any sort of resolution?
You had the chance with Bernie Sanders, but you blew it. Removing profit motive from healthcare is the only long term solution, which every single other established country have already done.
My dude, we voted for him in the primaries, we have his fucking t-shirts, but they rigged it anyways. What are we supposed to do?
Join a union, organize with a political organization, build support networks, and prepare dual power
Or do an adventurism
Maybe they just meant commercial assassinations aren't the way forward
I don't think Burnie could've won anyway, he's too radical for too many in the centre
Ah another editorial about this. You have two flavors of editorial now:
No shit!
What are you fucking huffing?
"that's why I say hey man nice shot! What a good shot, man!"
Banger
It was good enough. Not much better than that though.
It's not really just about health insurance, but I guess that's as good an issue to start with as any.
Not experts if they couldn’t predict this
“Experts”
The rage was going to go somewhere. Bill Burr isn’t my humor but he’s said the most normal, in line with human behavior things thus far in regards to this occurrence. His analogy between old school mobsters and current corporations is solid too.
I guess now we just wait for the social contagion, which will likely happen unless the financial squeeze of the masses eases up.
Scary.
Well…no shit.