Microblog Memes

Yeah, similarly, Burger King doesn't have to give you the whopper you've paid for. BK employees didn't take an oath to feed you whoppers. They only have taken an oath to the managers, who have taken an oath to the CEO, who has taken an oath to Friedrich Hayek and the shareholders to make shitloads in dividends, as is their social responsibility. Everything is working just fine in our society thanks to these nice concepts.

Beasley kind of has a point that it's a stretch to call monetary debt as murder, but I really hope more people start voting for politicians who will end privatized healthcare.

Even if a claim gets denied the fact that it was submitted means you already got the treatment.

You know... that kinda vow would be a great idea! Doctors take an oath like thing too, right?

Not a meme.

Without realizing it, Mike Beasley makes a great argument for why private, for-profit health insurance shouldn't exist.

It’s my understanding that health insurance companies hire doctors, who have taken the hypocritical oath, to review claims and deny them.

"It's a business" is not a justification for evil, and yet that's always how the phrase is used.

We should stop calling it "insurance", it doesn't ensure anything. We should call it what it is - a protection racket. Either that, or we could refer to it as "medical loans" - of course, it's all paid in advance, in many installments. Oh wait. That's just defining a protection racket again, isn't it?

The very concept of paying for health care through insurance is evil.

Why do we even allow a profit motive to deny health care? Should be straight up illegal.

Funny how life insurance always pays, no problem. Because if they get a bad rep, people will go elsewhere. We can't do that with employer-covered healthcare!

... This dude needs to understand how other types of insurance work

insurance is a fucking scam that preys on the most vulnerable segment of the population in order to enrich themselves and their shareholders. and the vast majority of people think that's just the way things are in america, therefore it's the best possible way for things to be. what's not to understand?

That why insurance should not be for profit.

Worse than that they staff doctors in name only. The type of quacks who couldn't make it in the real medical world. I really don't understand how they can't be sued for malpractice when they argue a diagnosis with your doctor. At that point they are acting as your doctor.

Not a fan of the smug liberal aura this post has.

They actually hire doctors to analyze claims and they're the ones making the decisions whether the claims are accepted or not.