Anthem BCBS calls off surgery anesthesia cap after UH CEO murdered
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Heh. When EU authorities started implementing (partial) refunds for flight delays over x minutes, the airlines just added 30 or so minutes to their flight schedules, so most of the times they land early - wahey, progress! If the law got implemented I can imagine surgeons padding surgery time to make sure their patients get adequate care.
That is progress, given the advertised flight times more accurately represent the p95 time as opposed to a hopeful guess.
Kind of a no win situation they put themselves into.
If he is killed and/or we never learn a motive, he'll just be forgotten under a pile of online and media speculation. Hopefully his plan anticipated some kind of dead man's release of his motive.
Anaesthesiologists and Surprise Billing
Yes! Even without vigilantism, when society places a great deal of trust in you you are supposed to live with a certain level of fear that if you abuse that trust society will impose upon you life-destroying consequences.
It feels like it should be terrifying for Silicon Valley too, another group of very rich and powerful people who tell themselves that everything they do is for the benefit of society while actually most people make their bread and butter on technology whose benefits to society are quickly consumed by anti-competition and that familiar attitude of overwhelming negligence towards human harm where it is caused.
SV may be different though in that most cases you are opting in and most people agree that the products improve their life. If you feel otherwise don’t buy it. Someone can still decide that technology is bad and go on a bombing campaign like the unabomber, but we haven’t seen much support for that approach, instead questioning his sanity. I think the YT shooter fell on the crazy side of the scale in public opinion as well.
With health insurance, you are forced to buy it or have little choice on which company you go with when it’s provided through your employer.
I guess if you’re forced out of a job because of AI or something that’s fair. I always thought the best argument for UBI was if you take all of our jobs and give us nothing in return, we can make your life a living hell.
Basically most people are at least not mad that it happened.
Folks that are mad I’ve noticed come from a background of generational wealth, which translates to never having dealt with an insurance company.
As a society we’ve been far too comfortable with death in the form of profit seeking and bureaucracy. It’s all good if the death is indirect and many layers deep. It’s bad if the death is direct and targeted.
For me the irony is that this has brought people from both sides of the political divide together, yet the people on the right just voted for a guy that will make society even more unfair.
Perhaps the next four years will be a true reckoning. The darkest moments before the dawn of a new era. The rise of Bernie 2.0, half man half machine, an efficient anti-drilling machine.
The answer to such operations is not to just point at everything bad and divisive and say “might be foreign influence!” Of course, it might be. Or might not! Who knows. Guesses are not really actionable or influential. And without hard proof, over time it sounds like crying wolf.
The sustainable defense is to address the ground conditions themselves. People are pissed about health care and wealth inequality—separately and together. That’s not something a foreign country did to the U.S.
America does not want for-profit insurance interfering in their medical care. The insurance companies are do-nothing middle men who will stop at nothing (including mass murder by systematically denying medical care) to extract value for their shareholders. It's disgusting and morally corrupt - yet they have the government in their pocket and are effectively immune from the law. Hell, they largely make their own laws.
This event was America's reaction to the situation - things have gotten so hopeless that vigilante justice is widely seen as the only option.