Proposed California ballot initiative ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ would make it harder for insurers to deny medical care
A proposed California ballot initiative, named after alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, has been recently submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office.
The initiative would make it illegal for an insurance company to “delay, deny or modify any medical procedure or medication” suggested by a licensed physician in the Golden State, which could have serious consequences such as “disability, death, amputation, permanent disfigurement, loss or reduction of any bodily function,”
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This is how it should be done. As long as a claim is for a procedure covered by an insurance plan, then the Insurance company should not have authority to deny a claim. If an insurance company believes a doctor is making fraudulent claims or excessive claims for unnecessary procedures, then they can report the doctor to the state medical board. Or they could sue the doctor for making excessive or unnecessary claims. In any case, the insurance companies will not be the one making the decision. It will be the courts or the licensing board. Not some asshole or asshole AI at an insurance company.
Insurers will simply reduce what their plans cover and insurance will get even shittier than it is now. We need to move to some type of Medicare for all, full-stop.
I mean, how it should be done is no medical insurance companies at all because Healthcare should be fully nationalized.
Preach.
It would be literally impossible to talk about this on Reddit now
Talk about it then, instead of complaining about reddit (same goes for me... but i have nothing smart to add)
Dude just type "nuh uh" and move on
Nuh uh
Yeah huh
Print this out and stick it to every public wall you can.
If it's on the ballot, I'll be voting for it.
Same.
But it delivers the right message to CEOs. Flight this bill to hard and you might regret it.
It's a message of support in a way.
If your actions result in the creation of a law that benefits your fellow citizens then those actions should be considered absolutely necessary and for the greater good.
The health insurance industry sole obligation is to make money and that is directly in opposition to their product, which is to pay for healthcare.