This is the system Americans have chosen. Im not saying its the best or shouldnt be improved.
Im for a public option, but there will still be rationing and denial of care. people will still die.
Said more accurately: this is the system chosen for Americans, against many of their wishes, by the officials some of them elected.
It would be nice if they did that consistently and fairly, but they don’t.
Using an AI to review and deny claims with a (claimed) 90% error rate or denying claims without reading them is not vetting, it’s straight up negligence and fraud.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate...
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...
Some (few) of them. In EU it is different.
The majority of American voters have chosen this system multiple times, and have voted for a president who has explicitly said he'll make this system worse by repealing the ACA. He almost did it the first time, too, and it only failed by one vote.
Maybe this UHC CEO event will get more people talking about healthcare, and ultimately get more people voting for candidates who want to improve the system next time around. I support a public option, so I hope it does. But I won't hold my breath.
No, he has literally said he would replace it with something better.
This is a lie, obviously.
But you can't then assume the people who voted for him were voting for the system to be worse.
Some fraction of them are likely desperately hoping it gets better and have just had their desperation taken advantage of.
> But you can't then assume the people who voted for him were voting for the system to be worse.
At least in 2016, some of his voters that I knew personally just wanted the ACA to be gone and to have "freeloaders" kicked off of the system. They weren't voting to make it worse for themselves, per se, but voted vindictively to make it worse for others.
"People will still die" is the kind of thing narcissists and sociopaths tell themselves when they are pretty sure that the set of "people" does not include themselves.