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    Why are healthcare denials sent to and shouldered by patients? If you go to an in network facility, that place is vetted by insurer. So why isn’t a ‘denial’ a matter between the provider and the insurer and transparent to the patient?

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    Health care insurance should be handled by governments, or alternatively by law by non profit foundations

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      Some would argue that should be the case for all companies.

      Imagine how much better for profit companies would function if they didn’t have investors skimming off their profits.

      For profit companies should be illegal.

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        Have you ever worked in government?

        Getting the simplest shit done takes forever.

        By contrast, getting things done in a private company is quick as hell by comparison.

        I wouldn’t say government bodies “function better” in my experience.

        All that said, healthcare is one thing I’d definitely like to see handled by the gov rather than privatized.

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      Usually, things handled by governments suck in orthogonal ways to private companies. Private companies suck due to greed. State owned stuff sucks due to incompetence.

      Where I live, we have a state owned insurance company, but others are allowed to compete with it. Optimistically, they competing with each other making all of them better. Pessimistically, you choose the one that sucks least from your point of view. Either way, better than any proposed alternative.

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    Elder CEO mentoring prodigy, “that’s why you need state of the art security, if one of the plebs goes and murders you the shareholders will suffer in their quest for never ending profits”

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    Good, let it crash and burn and let it not be the only one

    Free healthcare for all US citizens!

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    Too bad they will make damn sure this doesn’t hurt the shareholders but the people themselves.

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    The fucking disgusting bit is that’s less than 8%. So it’s still only 3% lower than it was at the beginning of the year

    How many people died for that line?

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      Yes but have you considered that line goes down? Line must never go down so further cuts must be made to ensure line goes up next quarter.

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    If Luigi has shorted the company with some leverage, he might now be incredibly wealthy

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    Luigi, I can forgive a lot, but shareholder value… How could you, man?

    How am I supposed to tell my kids about his when they are back from the character building camp I sent them to where they were hunting lesser human beings for sport in an eastern European country I won’t name? This is really going to crush their big, delicate hearts…

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      Pff, peasant, sending your children off to some far ofd shithole. Shell out some real money and I’m pretty sure you can find some human hunting grounds within the U S of A. Turn it into family bonding time like a good father.

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      We need a George Soros who would pay off private security companies who you know these CEOs pay very poorly to look the other way when they reach a quiet dark not very populated destination.

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        At that point, just bribe one of the security team members to do it and smaller bribes for everyone else on the security team to not see it.

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      Fidelity, vanguard and blackrock are major shareholders of the UHC

      That’s code for the owner class along with some boomer 401ks

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        That’s likely most 401ks. They’re a very large company so they’re going to be in just about every stock market index fund available. The classic advice for 401ks is to use index funds because their fees are so much lower than managed funds, and you can follow your portfolio by following the S&P 500 instead of having to worry about what particular stocks a fund manager picked.

        Fund managers also tend to do worse than the market more generally, because a lot of them are really bad at their jobs.