When I had United Healthcare my doctor would often perform multiple routine services when I saw him. UHC denied every single claim, saying services performed weren’t the purpose of the original appointment. They wouldn’t just deny the claim for those services, they denied the claim for the entire visit and it happened almost every time I saw my doctor.
United Healthcare obviously didn’t want me to make multiple visits for the same services because that would have cost much more. The crooks running the company were instead pocketing huge unearned profits because they knew few people would appeal their constant denials. Health Net served up other flavors of the same shit.
These companies need to be put out of business permanently.
Nobody goes to get Healthcare just because they ‘want it’ but don’t need it.
No doctor prescribes things that aren’t medically necessary.
Health insurance as it exists in the US is a social cancer.
The fact that a licensed doctor has to make a case to an insurance company about what a patient needs is mind boggling to me. Every doctor I’ve talked to has told me that this is the worst part of their job.
Emergency services should never be privatized. Imagine firefighters having to ask some insurance company to cover the water they need to put your house out.
Imagine firefighters having to ask some insurance company to cover the water they need to put your house out.
It literally used to be like that. Firefighters would refuse to put out the fire if you didn’t have evidence that your fire insurance covered them.
Yeah, I believe the motivation for moving to public fire departments wasn’t even a moral decision. Fire from uninsured burning buildings has an extremely high risk of spreading to an insured one, so putting out all fires minimizes risk to paid subscribers.
My takeaway is: The only way to get American systems to care about the poor is if the rich might receive some collateral damage.
The Adjustments will continue until society improves
Sounds like we need more adjustment.
What the insurance companies think of as “unnecessary care”. Not what the doctors, nurses, or patients consider necessary.
Someone calls Mario!
Set Luigi free!
He said a bit more than that:
“We guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or for unnecessary care to be delivered in a way which makes the whole system too complex and ultimately unsustainable,” Witty said.
He added that employees should “tune out” criticism of the insurance company, saying that it “does not reflect reality.”
Witty said the company is going to “continue to make sure that we put patients, consumers, and members first, as we always have done. The mission of this company is truly to make sure that we help the system improve by helping the experience for individuals get better and better.”
“There is nobody who did more to try and advance that mission than Brian Thompson. And there are very few people in the history of the U.S. health care industry who had a bigger positive effect on American health care than Brian,” Witty said. “We are going to make sure that we not only acknowledge and honor that legacy of Brian, but we’ll continue it.”
So they’re really lying to themselves too
nobody wants to believe that they’re a villain, even mid-moustache twirl
Of course they are. You don’t just marshall hundreds of thousands of people to harm others for a paycheck if they believe they really are harming others. All corporations I’ve worked for do this. It’s corporate culture building.
Even with all of that money, bringing yourself to say all that empty, whack bullshit has to feel very strange and uncomfortable on the heels of such an event. Man should be feelin a lot like Ronald McDonald rn 🤡
Good! I was HOPING this Event changed NOTHING even though that’s why it Happened in the First Place!
