Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills

Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by arcticbull on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:41PM (#25498592)

Every medical insurance claim denied in bad faith is an assault if it leads to delay in care, and if it leads to death, is a murder. I suspect if you take that lens, you will see that the government insurance is not the violent one here.

45,000 people die each year in the US without care. Ending that would go a long way to reducing government violence. [1]

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...

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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by nradov on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:05PM (#25498910)

That's a non sequitur. Even single payer systems deny certain treatments or force patients to wait in order to control costs. Every healthcare system has some form of rationing.

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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by arcticbull on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:21PM (#25499110)

I said denied in bad faith - not due to capacity constraints - which roughly amounts to claims denied with the intent of maximizing profit instead of upholding the duty of care.

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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by winston_smith on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:54PM (#25498771)

And if you define paper cuts as murder, then libraries are the real killers. Do you really want to put your insurance paperwork on the same level as innocents getting bombed?

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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by arcticbull on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:59PM (#25499464)

If they're dead either way, then the same liability should exist. Does it really matter how?

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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by 8note on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:00AM (#25507574)

Who's dying of paper cuts? It's easy to see who's dying of denied insurance

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