Edit, source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/327686/americans-satisfaction-h...
I fell prey to their AI that (definitely unintentionally) denied 90% of claims. I required surgery for a repetitive stress injury. I fought it and got the surgery done, but it pushed the surgery into the new plan year which I suppose was the original intention.
If this was a family member with cancer being treated the same way I'd be significantly more sanguine.
Did you mean to write a different word, or are you saying "if a family member dying of cancer had their treatment delayed, I'd feel more positive"?
It got called "medically unnecessary" because apparently the person processing the claim couldn't read the fact that the organ was already dead and stopped at the line "stomach pain".
I had SIRS/sepsis right after that, it was fun.
How many Americans were unable to answer the survey at all because they died from a treatable condition that was denied by their insurance company?
It's almost as tone deaf as telling someone who'd just been in a car accident that "I'm fine, and you'll be fine too".
Imagine if I wrote "70% of Americans don't really experience racism or discrimination, so it's all fine" ?
Health care is a good or service that depends on other people's labor. People do not have a right to other people's labor (no matter how much they insist otherwise). It's entirely reasonable to bring up the fact that most Americans are happy with their health care.
Oh god not this nonsense "you're enslaving the doctors" argument.
By the way, insurance companies don't provide health care. They're a financial layer set to extract profit from those who need it, and United Healthcare seems to be the best at it.
As statistical multiplexing usually does, it improves things somewhat when you can't grow things larger, but when done for-profit with dividends, often disincents actually solving the capacity problem.
Racism is a lot like classism, though, and the distribution of health care is a consequence of structural classism of capitalist society.
I'm not sure what your second clause means other than "currently, people with more money can buy more health care". Of course it would be nice if the supply matched the demand r.e. health care. But neither single-payer systems nor more radical "restructurings" have solved that problem.
You can bring it up and it very well may be factually true, but it's irrelevant to the discussion.