Corporate counsel for insurance companies comprise one of the very few spots on the brontosaurus with low-latency innervation from the brain. Poke it, you'll usually get a response that will arrive faster than the usual appeals processes.
What can be done?
That change doesn't have to be 100% or perfect. The ACA ensured that a lot more people got covered, even if it was not perfect.
Also, it's about far more than voting. Voting is done every once in awhile. Citizenship is every day. Powers-that-be are watching and investing enormous energy in manipulating public opinion - for a reason. It's powerful. Today is the day to act.
There definitely aren’t any healthcare systems inside of my mirror, not even the bathroom one with a cabinet behind it.
The media also loved to bring on people who “adored their current insurance plan and would hate to lose it”. I’ve never met someone like that in real life, but the MSM would have you believing you were the only one in all of America who had any ill thoughts about their insurance company.
If voting could change anything it’d be illegal.
The absolute best way to ensure that nothing changes is to get cynical and try and demotivate anyone else from trying.
The "We need to raise taxes to have universal coverage" argument doesn't hold water.
> Health care is financed through a mix of financing arrangements including government spending and compulsory health insurance (“Government/compulsory”)
Digging into the source report[0], we see the following footnote exclusive to the US:
> All spending by private health insurance companies reported under compulsory health insurance. Category “Other” refers to financing by NGOs, employers, non-resident schemes and unknown schemes.
[0]: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/7/4/inde...
Yet things do change, dramatically.
What have the “far right” changed? And was it through voting or other means? In a sibling I admit violent revolution as a plausible change causer, and claim it is unique in that regard.
This is one of the more annoying failure modes of socialised medicine; when things go wrong the consumer has no control over the waste because they aren't in control of the money being spent.
Absolutely pick a different phrase, but it'll still have applied before the ACA and it'll apply after except for people with preexisting conditions, eliminating lifetime caps, and maximum out of pocket limits.
I'd really like to hear one, cause the violence option isn't really very appealing.
Or we could just bring back bribing....
Oh you sweet summer child...
You don't want to get shot? Don't try to cheat people out of their money, especially when it is about their healthcare. It isn't complicated.
Going all philosophical here is, what, you making excuses for being a monster? Because what you're saying is that ruining other people's lives for your own profit is fine.
And yeah, violence is an extreme and distasteful solution, as I said. But if the only other option is to suck it up and let the exploiters win, then that's on them. You don't get to have a hypocritical morality system where it is ok for you to inflict harm on others for your own profit and not ok for them to inflict harm back in self defense.
"I'm a healthy 22-year old male with no family history to worry about, go ahead and ravage the program to save me a nickel on taxes."
or, from the other side,
"I might need an ingrown toenail treated and how dare that go into a triage list and I have to come back in six months because there are more seriously ill people-- don't they know I'm rich and important?"
An insurance provider for a specific industry has teams of skilled attorneys that are expert in that specific domain. Cigna might self insure if they consider medical malpractice a core part of their business. In that case, your attorney sends the letter to their corporate counsel.
Often times, day to day business people just ignore liability risks because it's not in their core mandate. But the corporate counsel is in charge of managing legal risk, and they will see such a situation as unacceptable. Corporate counsels also hold a lot of sway within a businesses structure.