Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise

Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by SauciestGNU on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:27PM (#42414158)

Doctors deserve to be rich. They do incredibly specialized work where the outcomes are extremely critical, to put it mildly. I don't want doctors performing unnecessary treatments to line their pockets, but I don't think we're actually in danger of that.

The difference between a rich doctor and a rich insurance exec is that the doctor helps people, and the insurance exec makes their money withholding necessary care from people, in effect torturing and killing them.

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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by consteval on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:31PM (#42414169)

This is the problem with insurance in general. The incentive of insurance is at direct odds with patients and doctors.

It's a tug of war, and even if insurance "loses", it doesn't matter, because you lost trillions of dollars in that tug of war. It's artificial inefficiency caused by privatization, very much a Dark Night burning a mountain of money situation.

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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by SauciestGNU on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:43PM (#42414229)

Yeah I'm in favor of a single payer system, but I think that's even less likely than adding some guardrails to what we have now.

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