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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the actual health care providers get the screwjob on a regular basis. Meanwhile there's some insurance fatcat going door to door doing sales to employers.

I shit you not I once watched an insurance middleman asshole come into the office and be like "the problem with health care costs is definitely not the insurance companies". Like yeah, it's totally not the fact that you have a job going around to the offices in the area accomplishing nothing, Mr. Combover, it's totally the health care workers that actually provide service that are the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've worked in, for and with the health insurance industry, in the past, and adjacent industries (mental, physical, occupational, speech therapies, gp* skilled nursing facilities, etc). It's definitely the middle -men.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They like to push the blame on:

  1. "Torts" because why allow people killed or very injured by crappy medical practice to sue? /s
  2. "Government regulation" because we all know that the US government is just out of hand when it comes to regulatory assistance to the public /s (Seriously though the fact that the government got involved proves that people were bleeding out of the ass for decades after being fucked so hard by the healthcare and health insurance industries)
  3. Greedy healthcare facilities ...now these sometimes could carry maybe 0.5% of the blame, but (a) they're actually providing a service, and (b) it's not always the case that they're trying to rake you over the coals...sometimes they're just trying to keep the lights on
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A few major issues that immediately spring to mind: corporate/wealthy individual lobbiests, insurance corporations buying up entire practice providers/insurance-owned pharmacies, such as CVS.