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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 151 points 1 week ago

Not nearly enough.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 122 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So let’s watch the denial rate at major insurance companies to see if it goes down.

Luigi’s trial will still be going on probably. I’m betting he’s going to drag it out as long as possible. His family is rich and influential so the trial is going to be a shit show, I hope.

And once we see a sudden (temporary) drop in denial rates, we can shit all over insurance executives again next quarter.

And the quarter after that when the denial rates sneak back up again.

Let’s just say I am really excited about shitting on that crew a lot.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 135 points 1 week ago
[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago

She should email back that Brian Thompson personally approved her mammogram and that they should check with him.

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[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 1 week ago

life expectancy and denial rates are now like KPI for me. these lines should be going up kinda like stock market, since this is all about "efficiency"

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it’s pure schadenfreude. But I am seriously coming around to the idea that shit-posting is a serious political tool. So I am planning my meme strategy around the release of these numbers.

This subject has the right emotional content to keep this issue in the public consciousness. Ever hear of ‘social peace’? Not for these shit heads.

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 1 week ago

this is definitely a moment of unity. while issue is bigger than healthcare. healthcare can be the rallying topic and improving just health care would a big W.

social peace is elites' job to maintain but they are not interested in that.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 week ago

First I’ve read that his family has money. That’s really encouraging.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah apparently Baltimore country club types. People magazine has already done a thing on them.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

And now's their chance to prove that what's most important to them is what's right rather than how they look to others at the country club

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[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 52 points 1 week ago

Oh no, the imaginary number is going down. Whatever shall we do?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

And if Americans really did have the ability to shop around for the health insurance they wouldn't need in a sane country in this first place, this might be a good thing.

As it is, anyone with UHC (like my family) will end up paying a higher premium.

[-] Jamablaya@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

I don't even know what goes on anymore. I've had good health insurance in the USA for years (I'm a trucker) but have not had health insurance in Canada for 7 years (because I'm a trucker of no fixed address and health care is provincial, i pay income taxes to an entity that issues my driver's license but denies i live there when it comes to my health insurance) My american health insurance doesn't give two shits where i live. My drivers license is to a post office box near my employer of 7 years. I'm literally homeless but consistently pay taxes and reside in one county in one province with a steady employer but i just won't lie so i don;t have "canadian" health insurance, which is never been my "birthright as a Canadian" like muttonhead socialists talk about, it's always been provincially determined while the federal government pretends it wasn't something that happened despite their resistance, when provincials had balls and thought of themselves as their region, not canadians.

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[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 1 week ago

As it is, anyone with UHC (like my family) will end up paying a higher premium.

Rates for 2025 are set already.

You can't switch next cycle like the rest of people prolly gonna do?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Which "rest of people" get a choice of insurance providers from their employer?

Or do you mean pay a hell of a lot more for a plan the employer isn't offering?

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 week ago

fair point, well tell your employer to switch, also tell your coworkers.

you are deff on point that they will extract to punish for this. but staying with them is a bad business decision unless your employer is getting kick backs.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 29 points 1 week ago

Big companies will switch if the rates justify it, it's a yearly bidding war, and quite annoying when you have to change insurance cards and even a different provider because of things beyond your control. Healthcare should be nationalized and not tied to employment for so many reasons.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

well tell your employer to switch, also tell your coworkers.

Has that ever worked for you? Have you only worked in small businesses or something?

If things were that simple, the CEO wouldn't have been assassinated in the first place.

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

i know they deff switch providers if they care to ever "save" money

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, okay. The CEO will be very happy to see some random low-level peon about which insurance company ConHugeCo uses.

I'm thinking you're not actually in the U.S. at this point if you think that's how anything works.

[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 1 points 6 days ago

Health insurance costs the company money too, it's why United was so popular, it's cheaper for the company. If they raise their rates, the company has to foot part of that bill. Normally 50+% is covered by your employer. That's why it is so much cheaper to get insurance through your company than going market. So if United raises rates by 25%, your employer is as pissed as you are. What your employer might not care about(if you are in a big company) is things like denial rates or employee experience.

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[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is anyone else getting United Healthcare ads in their Gmail promotions tab? Seemed a little tone deaf.

Edit A word.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I stepped away from that creepy shit when I noticed just how awful Google (search) and Gmail have become, a complete contrast to how it was originally. Now it's Fastmail and Duckduckgo, and everything is so much cleaner.

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

checks fidelity

....naaaaaaah

lower

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

So... *checks math*, just 13 more? That's achievable. Let's do this.

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago
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