Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by akira2501 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:41PM
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> Hold up, how this type of fraud require any government involvement at all?
Hold up (seriously hold up and stop serially editing your comments), where did I say it did?
> It's a similar concept
The government has decided, without much input from actual citizens, that copyright should exist for life plus 70 years. Government interference in copyright has created the fraudulent market conditions you've just related.
We can do this all day if you like.
Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by immibis on Sunday September 08, 2024 @07:08PM
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I can still give you a fake repair manual subscription with or without copyright.
Re:How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
by Terr_ on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:15PM
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Yeah, or even a (fake) catalog of flavors from the subscription-based Ice Cream of The Month club, where X months of continuous membership entitles you to something that didn't actually exist.
I wouldn't consider dairy-product safety/labeling laws a root-cause of that.
The core situation isn't specific to healthcare either: Someone's offering you a long-term contract service based on the strength of a menu of available services and options, but their offering is effectively fake.
It's a similar concept to subscribing to a mostly-fake library of repair manuals or something, only the popular/cheap ones are there, and the others are permanently temporarily unavailable.