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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by bko on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:37PM (#42796046)
75% of Americans with employer-provided health coverage are satisfied with their current plans

For Americans overall, 71% rate the quality of healthcare they personally receive as excellent or good. Similarly, 72% give excellent or good marks to the quality of care they receive personally.

Regarding health insurance coverage, 65% of Americans rate their own coverage as excellent or good. Another poll found 63% rated their own health care coverage as excellent or good.

You have to get offline

https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-poll-strong-majority-...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/654044/view-healthcare-quality-...

https://news.gallup.com/poll/468176/americans-sour-healthcar...

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by sympil on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:09PM (#42796338)
You have to get offline

Perhaps. But if I weren’t online I wouldn’t know how widespread the support of Luigi is.

Only 75% of people on employer healthcare plans are satisfied? A great many people aren’t on employer plans.

From the third link you provided:

For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% rating it “excellent” or “good.” The slight majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar, including 31% saying it is “only fair” and 21% -- a new high -- calling it “poor.”

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by bko on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:14PM (#42796991)
> The poll by CloudResearch found that 27% of U.S. adults expressed “moderate” or “a lot” of sympathy for Mangione.

> A smaller but significant share of adults, 12%, said they were supportive of the decision to murder Brian Thompson, 50, who was shot in New York on Dec. 4.

12% is basically zero in this country. To give you a frame of reference, 14% of people think Obama is antichrist

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1-in-4-americans-sympathiz...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-million-americans-believe-liza...

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by sympil on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:57PM (#42797958)
The former DHS head seems to think it’s a lot of people. Don’t know any other murderers who have 27% of the population having sympathy for them.

12% is not basically zero.

https://www.thewrap.com/luigi-mangione-discourse-alarms-home...

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by epistasis on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:39PM (#42796657)
Is the support that widespread, or is it a bubble created by social media?

I think there's great dissatisfaction with healthcare in general, but social media is not a good way of judging social attitudes across the US. It's great for finding a small niche, however.

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by sympil on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:45PM (#42796725)
He’s got a lot more support than any other murderer I know about.
Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by vkou on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:06PM (#42796929)
Not to mention, they are satisfied compared to what? The situation they'd be in if they were unemployed and had to pay for the entire overpriced thing themselves?
Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by sir0010010 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:52AM (#42802473)
The thing about insurance is that the reason you purchase it is for managing tail events. And the only way to know if you are satisfied with your insurance company is to experience a tail event and see how your insurance company behaves. If you develop an expensive to manage chronic illness, is your insurance company prompt in paying claims? Does it try to deny all of them and require you to hire an attorney to get them to pay anything at all? Does it turn out that much of the treatments you need for recovery were never covered by insurance at all? And even if it is paying - how many hours a week do they expect you to spend submitting and resubmitting claims and calling various doctors to collect more information and submit more and more paperwork?