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      This was actually announced a month ago. They just announced a couple hours ago that they are reversing that decision…for some reason.

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          Oh it is 100% connected. The new policy was brought into the spotlight because of the UHC CEO’s death and people are pointing at policies like that for the lack of sympathy for the CEO. The death may not be directly related but it just brought a ton of negative press toward them that was not there a month ago when the policy was announced.

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    I find it hilarious that most Americans have been brainwashed to think socialised healthcare is bad.

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      They’ve been chiefly brainwashed to think taxes are evil.

      Anything that involves caring for others outside of your immediate family requires taxes. That’s socialism. And that includes healthcare.

      “Why should I pay to help some poor person’s kid with childhood leukemia when I can hardly afford to put gas in my jacked up F-250? Do you know how much chrome exhaust tips cost? They should just get a better job so they can take care of their kids. It’s their fault they’re poor. Maybe they should have made their kid wear a mask or something. “

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        Yeah it seems like how you phrase it. Everyone hates health insurance. Most people don’t even like doctors. But we are a severely mis- and under-educated people.

        So you’ll have people saying things like:

        I hated Obamacare but my new ACA plan is pretty good.

        Keep your government hands off my Medicare!

        What is the best way to sell universal healthcare to the American people who really need it and actually want it although they may think they don’t? I like Bernie’s approach of calling it Medicare for all, but if Medicare gets gutted they might not sound so good. How should we talk about it?

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      Most of my family are diehard MAGA and I’ve tried to explain to them that the bigger the pool of paying customers the cheaper the insurance rates, and if you made the pool everyone in the entire country and took profit out of the equation they would pay far less for health insurance.
      Most of the time they’re response is that they don’t care that it would be cheaper, they just don’t want their taxes paying for someone else’s healthcare.
      They seem to miss the point that their insurance premium is also paying for someone else’s healthcare but in the end it just boils down to selfishness and bigotry.
      Boomers try to say that Millennials and Gen Z are selfish compared to them, but the boomers invited “fuck you, got mine”.

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    Isn’t an insurance company supposed to be able to cope with things like this? Some surgeries go overly long and you have to pay more for anesthesia. Luckily, not all surgeries do, and for these outliers you have a handy big pool of money people have been paying into. You could use some of that.

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      I used to joke with my surgeons that I’m running out of quarters to put in the anesthesia machine. Pretty soon it’s not going to be a joke.

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    What’s the problem? The surgeon I assume knows the timeline (which the insurance company came up with via decades of expertise), they just need to work faster.

    F-ing ~s in case it’s needed…

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    Isn’t some insurer being sued right now for practicing medicine without a license?