At least for a few months, if we fail to turn the moment into a movement and they do it anyway.
But for today, fewer patients will be billed life ruining sums after supposedly approved life saving surgery they were entitled to. Nothing can take that away from him. He made a difference.
Allow me to tell you the story of the starfish and the beach…
A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.
She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”
The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,
“Well, I made a difference for that one!”
IF you can only do one push-up, thats enough. IF you can only walk around the block, its a start. An avalanche begins with the movement of a single pebble.
Be the Green Mario you wish to see in the world.
I'll bet the BlueCross CEO has gotten an earful from her fellow sociopath healthcare CEOs for loudly rescinding the policy in response to what happened.
Funny thing about capitalist sociopaths though, solidarity with their fellow sociopaths isn't their thing, their interests when bribing their purchased government merely align. She was just looking out for number 1, that's all they're good for.
It's a long way from over, a lot more can happen.
Wasn’t there any article a few days ago explaining that it was the anaesthesiologist who would be taking the bill and it was all an effort to stop medical professionals overcharging?
The announcements for the three states said the company would begin denying “claims submitted with reported time above the established number of minutes” initially targeted for anesthesia services—though the policy would not apply for people under 22 or maternity-related care.
https://archive.ph/CPro4 Forbes mirror
Surgeons and anesthesiologists doing the surgery need to be the only voices estimating how long surgeries need to be, and should not be punished, nor their suffering patients, for their expert opinions on how long it will take to do it right.
Different patients of different/ages/states/complications will take differing amounts of time for the same procedure, not to mention unforseeable complications during said surgeries.