They're afraid!
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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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.
Unless the public kills one CEO every year or so to keep them in line.
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.
How about one a week?
We'll run out at that point. We still need them for... for... uh?
This is a problem I'm okay with having to face
They'll never run out of people willing to trade their morals for money.
And we'll never run out of compost! Food for the wyrms!
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.
aka The Big Club
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God, I bet he would have had some great jokes about this.
either that or brain damage from banging his head on the desk...
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.