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I think the health insurance companies are actually taken by surprise by the amount of people who sincerely wish them death. Maybe we will see some almost-meaningful change soon?

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The reason that insurance companies currently exist is to make money. That's the ONLY reason. Until that changes, the system is likely to get worse, not better.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unless the public kills one CEO every year or so to keep them in line.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

When these claims are denied there are so many pawns in the system that it is so easy to get really angry at and have easy access to. I'm really Glad that at least this went to the top and no one closer to ground level just having to carry out uhcs terrible policies was the victim of this rage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We'll run out at that point. We still need them for... for... uh?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This is a problem I'm okay with having to face

[–] psycho_driver 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll never run out of people willing to trade their morals for money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And we'll never run out of compost! Food for the wyrms!

[–] sartalon 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This, so much. If a CEO makes a conscientious decision that makes stockholders less money, he gets fired. Stockholders sue companies over decisions that are considered less profitable.

And I don't mean people who invest their 401k's in mutual funds bullshit. I mean the activist multi millionaire assholes that own full percentage points of companies. These people are the ones that lobby companies and politicians and shape the legal and market landscape.

These fucking people have zero accountability to anyone.

And they convince themselves they have every right to be that way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean the activist multi millionaire assholes that own full percentage points of companies. These people are the ones that lobby companies and politicians and shape the legal and market landscape.

aka The Big Club

(NSFW - language)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God, I bet he would have had some great jokes about this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

either that or brain damage from banging his head on the desk...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Essentially they exist to make the cost of the risk they agree to bear reasonable and affordable to their customers.

The second they fail to serve that purpose they become useless.

Their very existence depends on the same thing that has made them into the shitstains they are: Greed.