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Garibaldee @lemm.ee

8mo ago

'Out of Control': Insurance Giant UnitedHealth Calls in Middle of Cancer Surgery to Question Necessity | Common Dreams

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'Out of Control': Insurance Giant UnitedHealth Calls in Middle of Cancer Surgery to Question Necessity | Common Dreams

Not The Onion @lemmy.world

cm0002 @lemmy.world

8mo ago

'Out of Control': Insurance Giant UnitedHealth Calls in Middle of Cancer Surgery to Question Necessity | Common Dreams

www.commondreams.org /news/united-healthcare-surgery-coverage

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Mate, we don't really need more reasons to think Luigi did a good thing and that we need more good things like that...
If an agent of the insurance provider can just interrupt a medical procedure based on their own policy, and the lack of patient information is from their own negligence, that is wilful harm inflicted by United Healthcare.
Lock United executives up instead of Luigi Mangione. The US private healthcare system terrorizes Americans far more than one individual suspect could.
- Shit just doesn't add up with his arrest at all, they needed an entire case and just found it hanging out in public during a manhunt with all 3 key pieces of evidence needed to convict.
  That arrest was damage control to display the illusion that we cannot get away with revolting.
capitalism is unacceptable wherever there is inelastic demand.
- I agree with the first three words lol
  
  I think it can end there too but I'm not going to say markets and then spend the rest of my day explaining why that's different.
- "inelastic demand"
  I like that phrase, thanks
  
  See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
Which company?
Who is the CEO?
Why is anyone in the operating room taking a call during surgery? Surely anything an insurance company has to say can wait.
You know, at some point, we either accept that our homie LM was right and follow his lead, or we just fucking accept it. Because nothing seems to ever change anyway, so at least we can make the ratio of numbers taken down a little closer.

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