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Ironically the proposed solution is usually to put the government in charge, which is far larger and more violent than any private company.

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Every medical insurance claim denied in bad faith is an assault if it leads to delay in care, and if it leads to death, is a murder. I suspect if you take that lens, you will see that the government insurance is not the violent one here.

45,000 people die each year in the US without care. Ending that would go a long way to reducing government violence. [1]

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...

That's a non sequitur. Even single payer systems deny certain treatments or force patients to wait in order to control costs. Every healthcare system has some form of rationing.

I said denied in bad faith - not due to capacity constraints - which roughly amounts to claims denied with the intent of maximizing profit instead of upholding the duty of care.

And if you define paper cuts as murder, then libraries are the real killers. Do you really want to put your insurance paperwork on the same level as innocents getting bombed?

If they're dead either way, then the same liability should exist. Does it really matter how?

Who's dying of paper cuts? It's easy to see who's dying of denied insurance

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