They’re afraid!
I think the health insurance companies are actually taken by surprise by the amount of people who sincerely wish them death. Maybe we will see some almost-meaningful change soon?
Hmm, seems an American problem needed an American solution
I chucked though this would mean that the American solutions are…short-term? Headlines will fleet, the ruling class will become a little bit more vigilant. And then shit will return to business as usual. Unless this sparks a mass movement.
The reason that insurance companies currently exist is to make money. That’s the ONLY reason. Until that changes, the system is likely to get worse, not better.
Unless the public kills one CEO every year or so to keep them in line.
I suppose eating the rich does count as killing… (/s?)
Eventually. Assuming we eat them raw.
Santa Clarita moment…
How about one a week?
We’ll run out at that point. We still need them for… for… uh?
This is a problem I’m okay with having to face
Essentially they exist to make the cost of the risk they agree to bear reasonable and affordable to their customers.
The second they fail to serve that purpose they become useless.
Their very existence depends on the same thing that has made them into the shitstains they are: Greed.
So… The murder of a CEO of a horrible company leads to better conditions for everyone?
I would probably break a ton of rules on lemmy to suggest any further actions based on this result, so I’m not going to.
^But, you know…^
Why so scared guys? I thought motive was unclear.
Goddammit, how do I give you Lemmy Gold?
If there was a way to make a Lemmy gold that is basically a donate for the instance the user is on that would be pretty cool.
So if someone gets a “gold” it means that the person who gave it donated to the instance that person is on, or the instance the giver was on
I know folks don’t want to hear this, but this anecdote is quite dubious. Big companies don’t move that quickly, especially in a business as complicated as health insurance. There are various plan levels and many individualized, specifically, for certain employers, as well as many elective medications (wegovy anyone?) for this to have been done in a couple of days. There’s no way these CEOs and executives said to just blanket approve all prescriptions. They would just pay a substantial amount for personal security, with company money, while maintaining their profits.
I’m happy that there was a change for these folks. There is not doubt about that. As someone that just sort of lived without insurance for a big portion of my life, and I still don’t have a doctor/gp, and have had problems with doctors and specialists cancelling on me after ER visits I am really confused what to think.
I’ve got to rethink all of this violence as an option to stop the rich from playing fuck fuck. it still feels gross that CEO had to be murdered to create change. But I am happy if this post is working with facts of people getting access to medicine and healthier life experiences.
Was there ever a big societal change for the better without blood?
You know, kinda like our genetic cousins murdering the greedy guy who hogs all the bananas.
The collapse of the German Democratic Republic was peaceful.
It also did not happen in a vacuum, and the collapse of the Eastern bloc was not really peaceful.
Also, in my anecdotal experience, the harder break a country did from that system, the better they are doing now.
This is just trying to adapt to stay alive (the industry, not the people) when they really should be utterly destroyed in favor of single payer healthcare. Don’t let up because they’re behaving like they have a gun pointed at their corporate person and promising the holder anything to keep making billions.
Someone do the math on how long it takes before an other one needs to be taken down a peg again for the insurance to keep doing their job.
Tricky with just one data point. If we assume the rate of denials has dropped to zero (from a previous poster, again just a single data point), and that in time that rate will pick up again, we’ll need to know what effect the next murder has, if the rate again drops to zero or hovers somewhere above it, then we should be able to come up with a reasonable estimate of how many denials a CEO is worth. The rate at which denials picks up again will in any case give a good initial estimate of that with no second murder needed, but more data will lead to greater accuracy.
That’s how it works.
Usually the quote is about all political power coming from the end of a rifle, but I guess this time it was a pistol.
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Then we better shoot another CEO when they start that bullshit again
Hold on, anybody got the sauce? Can anyone confirm this kind of thing is happening?
I call it success
Capitalists will only behave if they’re afraid or if it’s profitable. The latter is rarely the case.
is this related to the British storm that I’ve heard from network rail about?
