I feel like health insurance companies are putting a lot of pressure on people named Mario right now.
Luigi.
It’s time for that green guy from that one video game that I can’t mention because the auto mods are erasing free speech
It’s WeeGee time.
Time to send another luigi fellas!
I see the mods are still being little bitches.
To be fair, I’ve had doctors pad the bill. I’m lucky enough to have decent insurance and I have a few stories about doctors taking advantage of that.
So what?
So it’s a good argument for single payer healthcare
Any examples?
A few. I had a primary care doctor who would talk my ear off. After we discussed whatever my problem was he would talk about religion and politics. He was pretty right wing, me having a catholic school education and have long paid attention to politics can hold my own. The odd thing, there was always a waiting room full of patients but he would gab on and on. Eventually I came in for an appointment and I said to his receptionist “the doctor sure doesn’t rush me out of there”. That’s when she said “yeah most insurance companies want you out in fifteen minutes”. At that moment it clicked. The doctor was always looking at his watch, if he went over fifteen minutes he could charge for another fifteen minutes. He also had a waiting room full of posters and pamphlets paid for by pharmaceutical companies. He suggested prescribing me medication for my anxiety, i just laughed. My doctor now has none of that propaganda in his waiting room. My last visit he pushed eating fresh fruit and vegetables. I told him that’s why I come to him, he tells me what I don’t want to hear. I had a dentist who was the same way. Also very religious and right wing.
so does that make it ok for healthcare providers to deny coverage for procedures or medication that has been prescribed due to an illness or ailment impacting a patients quality of life?
No it doesn’t but I can understand why they don’t greenlight everything. This all is a glaring example why we need single payer health care and doctors that earn a flat rate and not get paid per procedure (there is a name for this, i don’t know it).
It’s self fulfilling though. Doctors offices are at the whims of their agreements with the insurance companies to stay afloat. They pad the bill (charging maximum for everything) because the insurance company will only pay percentages on most procedures. Then they usually write off the rest (or close to it). Doctors are incentivized to prescribe certain drugs over others, and other such meddling.
Healthcare costs are as high as they are specifically because of private insurance. The evidence is in every single other developed country that has state-provided healthcare. It’s overall cheaper, and often better.
Insurance companies default to denying claims because they know, if the barrier is high enough (denial after denial), people will simply stop asking for the procedure (or whatever), so they don’t have to pay anything. Then their earnings go up, and they pad their pockets.
To say “insurance company bad” oversimplifies the problem. That’s why it’s foolish to base opinions on memes. Where there’s lots of money, greedy people will find a way to get at it or as I like to say “shit attracts flies”. In my work I deal with private companies that are paid with public dollars. What I see going on has jaded me hardcore. Publicly funding the health care system will be a disaster without overhauling the whole system.
I don’t disagree with you. We can’t simply replace insurance companies with a public version and expect everything to be okay. But Medicare and Medicaid seem to work really well for a lot of people. They can simply expand it, and then private insurance can still exist as a supplement if someone wants.
But what we really need is more regulation, everywhere, on almost all industries.
Gotta kill citizens United, and make superpacs illegal. When money gets out of politics, is when we’ll finally see some change.
So he’s suicidal?
More like, disconnected from reality.
Poh-tay-toh tuh-mah-toh
So many internet arguments revolve around binary choices that don’t need to be binary or appeals to authority or hypocrisy as the only leg they stand on.
I win! Whoosanext?
What did you expect?
We’ve been told for years that herp derp the economy is doing amazing! If you don’t agree there’s something wrong with you! if you got laid off or your corpo landlord raised your rent and you’re now dying in the street well then… look everybody! An evil homeless person lowering your property values with their continued existence! Git em!
Luigi Time!
gonna put this dumb mother fucker on an airbrushed tee like he’s already dead
chalk yourself out ya big dumb bastard, show the sharks where that menstrual leak is bitch-made mf
Can we gamble on how long they have left?
That’d be some good old fashioned capitalism.
I think that would be hilarious but no gambling site would allow it.
the odds are too much in favor of the winners.
Doug Stanhope used to run a celebrity death betting pool where you could bet on which celebrity would be the next to die.
No idea if it was legal lol.
I miss Anonymous. Those fuckers would be figuratively burning down UHC right now.
they were taken down and then turned into a shell org of the NSA.
it’s a honeypot/scapegoat now.
What actually happened to them? Did key members get tracked down or something?
They all got arrested by the FBI.
I think they all just got jobs, honestly.
In this economy?!?! /s…kinda
Actually that makes sense, and saddens me a bit there wasn’t a contingent to pass the torch to.
I don’t have sources, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the OGs aged out or got caught, and the new gen that replaced them weren’t as ideologically driven or competent or something. I think they still technically exist but aren’t nearly as influential as they once were
It’s also not as easy to hack electronic systems anymore. It’s not that they are invulnerable, but the vulnerabilities are generally more complicated and difficult to exploit. Setting aside people still running Windows XP or something, vulnerabilities get patched pretty quickly today. State actors have the time and resources to still do straight up electronic hacking, but opportunities for individuals are sparse.
Of course there is still the human element. Most data breaches done by individuals nowadays rely, at least in part, on social engineering.
Another thought this just popped into my head is that the next generation may not have been brought up with the same fundamental hacking skills that were somewhat inherent in being technical in the late 70s-mid 90s. Could you still learn them?…Of course, but having grown up with BBSs and LoD (Legion of Doom, and the like) and pre-WWW, some things were just more prevalent when it came to learning about the guts of systems and “cybersecurity” (that word didn’t really exist back then).
On the other hand, learning hacking itself is easier than ever. It’s turned legitimate under the guise of penetration testing.
That’s a cute email address
Did he not have a PR person tell him that video was a bad idea? Or more likely, did he not listen to their advice?
You think a guy in a blue seersucker suit is going to listen to advice from other people?
They simply don’t care. What are you going to do? Shoot them?
Headline says video was leaked. It was probably a private meeting. Agree that it was a stupid thing to say regardless.
