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I sense a new glauckomflecken video.

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For those not familiar, here is the one on Optum & United Healthcare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khH6pZnHCM

“Jimothy, when you make enough money, you get to write the laws.”

My first thought as well. Everything I know about UH and Optum (all of it negative) come from his videos, and it makes me appalled that any company like this is allowed to exist, when every study seems to indicate that patient in private-equity-owned care experience worse, more expensive care. It's the opposite of "capitalism creating efficiency".

>opposite of "capitalism creating efficiency"

It's rent seeking behavior by an actor that pretty much is a negative value-add from a patient's perspective. They are a cancer.

Its my primary source of Schadenfreude, because whenever he says anything about insurance covering, i usually research it and come up with that it is covered.

Covered according to what source? The ones the insurances provide?

Because the single most frequent complaint I hear about insurance is them deciding that something which they claim to cover, and should cover, they're suddenly no longer going to pay for because of some bullshit excuse.

It's one of the reasons doctors have to waste hours of their time every week getting "prior authorizations" for things the insurance claims they will cover.

They are legally Required to cover it. An council checks every new drug if it helps and if the price is appropiate. That is done for each drug indipendent of the regulation of the drug. the insurance has very few things to deny an claim(in most cases they deny them because an doctor abbreviated his/her title, but due an new method to transport the receipts its very probably that the number will drop) and none if the doctor deems it absolutly nessesary.

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