I feel like health insurance companies are putting a lot of pressure on people named Mario right now.
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.
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Luigi.
So he’s suicidal?
More like, disconnected from reality.
Poh-tay-toh tuh-mah-toh
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I see the mods are still being little bitches.
I win! Whoosanext?
You know, at face value he’s absolutely right. We shouldn’t claim care that is unnecessary or maybe even harmful. But where we disagree is that I think that decision should be left to our medical professionals
Really what it should be is that if a doctor prescribes unnecessary care, they should go after the doctor, not the patient. Doctors have malpractice insurance. If the health insurance can’t win a case of malpractice, then they should pay the bill. Why are patients in the midfle here at all.
Patients usually have the least amount of power. That’s why.
My attitude is that if the doctor prescribes unnecessary care there’s a professional board for that.
Though let’s be real, the health insurance for profit industry is the problem and it’s not going to get better until we get rid of it
Yeah, but the professional board is kinda like an HOA board. Should be more like a jury of all regular doctors or something.
Really what it should be is that if a doctor prescribes unnecessary care
That’s the core problem. The entity that defines unnecessary care is health insurance. And there are TONS of stories of them denying Diabetes medication for people with diabetes and anti-nausea meds to pediatric patients getting chemo.
If they were doing the right thing, no one would be pissed off. The “recent target” was the one to decided to run on AI driven denials that were denying 90% of care for months.
They are not fulfilling their duty to take the money from the subscribers and pay their righteous medical bills and instead using it as raw profit.
They are employing their own ‘doctors’ to prove stuff that is definitely necessary is labeled unnecessary.
It’s the conflict of interest in the “decision maker”
Not just meds. Patients with chronic pain are expected to take painkillers for treatment but omg if the doctor prescribes therapy deny that shit. Even though therapy helps faaaar better than medications for chronic pain sufferers.
Reminds me of the Tobacco Instrustry setting up the “Tobacco Institute”, to disprove any links between smoking being addictive, and lung cancer.
They were constantly gaslighting the public, even tried to discredit the Surgeon General for his report on second hand smoke.
It’s the same trick as rebranding bank robberies to identity theft. It puts the blame on the consumer who can’t afford to defend themselves.
Huh, I hadn’t thought of that as a Crying Indian.
This is still validating the profit incentive of private health insurance.
If the doctor prescribes unnecessary care, it should be none of these peoples’ business, because they shouldn’t be allowed any stake in the decision whatsoever.
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!
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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?
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
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.
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.
They all got arrested by the FBI.
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?
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.
You think a guy in a blue seersucker suit is going to listen to advice from other people?
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.
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.
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
That’s a cute email address
