CEO murder reveals simmering anger with American health care system
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I wish I made as much as people who are shocked that there’s simmering anger with American health care system
I used to live in ri, paid 420 a month for a half decent dental and health plan from BCBS. I moved to Vermont, went to look up insurance cost and since I make a godly 53k a year BEFORE taxes, I don't qualify for any assistance. A catastrophic plan here is 450 a month. A mid silver plan is 1k a month. I literally cannot afford to have health insurance anymore, and so I have been priced out. Now that I don't have coverage I just hope I never get sick or hurt again. I broke my arm bad and it was 30k between surgery and ambulance and emergency room (in ri and my health insurance covered it), if something like that happened now id just have to bury myself in debt. If I'm not mistaken medical debt is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in the USA.
Just as an FYI, sometimes mental health gets special coverage. So I have one of those high deductible plans but a few therapist visits are 100% percent covered before normal insurance math kicks in. I've been told this is a fairly frequent feature of employer coverage for whatever reason.
Which one are you?
EDIT: This was a sincere question, and no judgements of any kind were intended.
No judgements whatsoever, I was just curious. And TBH your situation is very interesting and illustrative of the problem, whilst also being clearly awful and kind of confusing. I would bet any non-americas reading it would be completely lost. I actually had to explain our insurance system to a new co-worker in India because I suddenly work in the fucking insurance industry due to a recent merger. I pulled zero punches, and fully let loose with how completely bonkers this system is. The dude is super cool though. We do have the high-deductible options, but I just could not math those out to make any sense whatsoever.
The people surprised are those that have special policies like government officials that are given preferential treatment with minimal out of pocket costs for almost everything.
Or those that have never been sick enough to have a claim that was expensive enough to get denied automatically by the insurance company.
Right? Obvious news everywhere lately. Who is it that is that out of touch?
My brothers in Christ of the journalism world, nothing was "revealed". It's just Luigi did what everyone who ever had a claim denied wants to do. This is not news.
The public response makes this news, honestly. And if you aren't online and seeing it, the anger might surprise you. Murders aren't usually celebrated.
Honestly? I'll take the coverage however we can get it. I am a frequent NPR listener, and some of their more niche programs are covering this with sincerity. Let's keep the conversation going.
Interesting...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
They're like a 7 year old that ate too many cookies
I didn't know the term but exactly my thought. Focus on limited area.
It isn't healthcare, though that is a dumpster fire on its own. We HATE insurance companies. They are not "healthcare". Use the right words or you end up like MAGA morons using things like commie and woke for "thing I don't like".
I wish there was no cause for insurance at all. Cremation should be free and a component of end of life care. The fact that dental and vision aren't a part of Healthcare is actually absurd. Auto insurance should be inexpensive and all about property.
I call it "American health extortion".
The gangster who will smash up your store if you don't pay for "insurance" is actually offering "extortion" , because he's creating the problem he's supposedly insuring against. In America, the insanely high cost of medical care, compared to any other developed country, is being created (by lobbying legislators, backroom price negotiations, etc) and maintained by the companies selling the "insurance" against it.
It's extortion, not insurance. At least call it what it is.
While I empathize with your comment, I found a certain irony as I was just reading another News discussion where someone mentioned that Democrats often call themselves leftists.
Brian Robert Thompson is doing far more good for the world as worm food than he ever did as a living man.
Source
You hear what happened to Brian Robert Thompson?
The front fell off.
What will that do to the environment?
It's fine. They towed him beyond the environment.
The only people who had anything revealed to them is the wealthy out of touch people, and unfortunately that makes up a lot of our politicians from both parties.
Everyone else has been pissed off about it for a long time.
I think people can still be surprised by how widespread the resentment is. Things are so polarized and there’s so much focus on dividing us into warring factions, it can be hard to believe that there's common ground on anything. Especially when there's so many other experiences we all shared that didn't lead to a similar understanding.
I think we all knew we were pissed off, but we didn't necessarily realize so many other people were too, especially people we don't like and don't agree with about anything else. I don't think it's simmering, though. I think we're at a rolling boil.
Simmering here meaning molten slag that was once a pan.
"revealed"
“We had no idea things sucked so bad!” 😱
Tune in tomorrow when we discover trump’s an unredeemable idiot.
Panicked CEOs left 'scratching their heads' as Trump ignores their warnings
No shit
Simmering? You think it's simmering? I'm surprised there's still water boiling in the pot, most of it evaporated into Steam already.
Its at least a rolling boil
I got news for them, it isn't just insurance ceos that we want to cap. My personal list is huge and grows regularly. Some more categories as examples: banksta ceos ("too big to fail ") and telecommunications ceos with their universally shitty customer service.