Sounds like a problem for a green plumber.
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Don't they mean "who's" next?
The answer to the tagline is: no. The CEO, Andrew Witty, of UHC Group (owner of UHC) wrote an article saying the healthcare system is broken and needs to be fixed. It was all PR garbage. No identification of WHAT people are frustrated with or how they will work to fix it. He also said that no employee should have to live in fear but the examples he gave of employees were RNs and call center employees. Last I checked, people were not angry enough at those groups to kill them in the street.
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Anger has intensified following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, spotlighting issues like AI-based claim reviews and profit-driven practices.
Really? Americans are surprised that a for profit healthcare system, has profit driven practices?
They can't be THAT supid?
But some Americans refuse to accept a socialized healthcare system that is not profit driven, and could cost about half what they pay now, if implemented at the average efficiency of other countries that have it.
Americans voted for Trump, and he will probably give them the deregulation the ignorant asked for, and the healthcare hellhole they are living in will get even worse. Deregulation will make it even easier for insurance companies to legally cheat their customers, and increase their profits.
Hurray for deregulation. /s
"If you take government bureaucrats out of the healthcare equation and you have doctor-patient relationships, it's better for everybody," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a video obtained by NBC News last month. "More efficient, more effective," he said. "That's the free market. Trump's going to be for the free market."
The myopathy here is mind boggling.
I bet things would change if Mike Johnson ever had a claim denied.
"Whether the murder will strengthen appetite for reform remains to be seen."
Yes, this is actually a sentence in a current article about the American health insurance industry.
these free thinking line toeing dickheads don't seem to realize that america has paper pushing dickheads AND death panels standing in the way of us ever getting the treatment we need. their arguments against soviet style healthcare are the problem with hypercapitalist healthcare. all we want, the left, is healthcare without linking it to power. we should recieve treatment because we are worthy of it because we have dignity as people and as beings who are loved. that we do not is an indictment that this system that kills us is a sham
That's your problem. You didn't work hard enough to earn your allotment of love.
there are 40 countries that fit the developed criteria, you may look at any of them for references
What the fuck do they mean privatization, it's already fucking private! Did we suddenly get a socialized healthcare system when I wasn't looking?
Could have saved a lot of time by just saying Trump plans to make one of the worlds worst healthcare systems even worse in whatever way he can. We're well on track for a healthcare system collapse in the US if Trump actually implements the things he's said he will. It will make a matched set with the economic collapse he's also working on.
Yes, we’ve had socialized healthcare for ages. You just aren’t allowed to have it unless you’re old, very poor, disabled, or a vet. So they mean privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA
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Just imagine if we brought the efficiency of the insurance that tries to keep you from getting healthcare to the systems that want to give you healthcare but are grossly underfunded, like medicare or the VA! Why, we could ensure that almost no one gets a covered doctor's visit while doubling prices.
The only part they won't gut is the part that mandates that everyone must have insurance.
Nothing better than being legally required to pay for a service that exists to fight to provide no value to you whatsoever in return for the money.
The only part they won’t gut is the part that mandates that everyone must have insurance.
Uh, that's the part that already got axed during Trump's last term, in 2019.
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The US already spends more per person on socialized healthcare than most countries that have universal socialized medicine. Our current system just inserts grifty billionaires into the money stream before the money gets to actual healthcare.
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