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Ah, so you are an optimist. What changes to health insurance/health care do you believe will occur in the next year due to this? I believe in 2 weeks people will be bored and worried about something else, but I'd be curious to know what you foresee.
Optimistic, me? Lol! I'm far from an optimistic person.
On the one hand, you're right, humans easily forget things, especially when our daily lives are so exhausting and humans have limited attention span (it reminds me of a video about an experiment involving attention span where a person wearing a monkey costume appears during a moment where the viewers are trying to count how many times a basketball kicked on the ground: as our eyes are focused on the basketball, we can't even notice them).
On the other hand, I never saw this kind of broad and unified reaction and feelings of "justice had been made". Hell, it even caused a reaction inside myself, and I'm not even an American. I'm Brazilian but I'm following what's happening around the world, especially what's happening with USA. I notice how the world has long been a gunpowder barrel, ready to explode. The bad things kept happening, humans kept being enslaved by this modern slavery, humans kept being silenced ("shut up and work, get us our profits, peasant!"), and everything has a tipping point. Everything has an "enough" point. A broad "enough" reaction was just a matter of time. And it seems like it happened through an anonymous symbol of this "enough" sentiment inside everyone.
At least that's what I feel, even when I'm from a whole another country and hemisphere, because it's a system with tentacles over the whole world. Corporations are multinational, they got branches here and there and everywhere. For example: back in 2015 and 2019, hundreds of Brazilians were killed by a mining corporation, when a dam broke, flooded an entire town and drowned people to their deaths. If was known as "Brumadinho dam disaster" and "Mariana dam disaster". It took years for their families to receive money (I'm not sure if this happened yet, when or how much they received), and some people even weren't found. People were "indirectly" murdered by a mining corporation, and that mining corporation continued to operate until nowadays!!
Something definitely needs to change, something definitely needs to happen so our "that's enough" feelings can be awakened, so things can change even if it's a little bit.
No fucking way. Because the insurance companies won't let them!
For fucking decades from now whenever someone gets screwed over by a health insurance company (which happens to probably hundreds of thousands every day) they're going to think of this situation.
The killer has proven there's an effective means for even poor people to institute change!
But what outcomes will be different? If the new CEOs sweat a bit and continue denying claims at the new rate, what's the difference? What actual impact to the people that pay health insurance will occur?