Weird how we have to pay more money every single year, and insurance somehow provides us less and less for our greater and greater spend

I have a friend who has a prosthetic. Sure they could live their life in a wheelchair. But this guy goes hiking, and acts like a fully capable walking person. The quality of life is huge. It really gives back their life.

Noooo heckin' killing CEOs is violent and bad

Then this fucking headline pops up.

They're basically crippling people, who could have at least some kind of limb use, by denying them limbs that THEY ALREADY PAID FOR AS PART OF INSURANCE PAYMENTS.

This just feeds into my disillusionment with science and technology. What is the point of having developed these incredible things to then not go and use them. I just have to spell it out now. What. The. Fuck. You know I was born into a modern age but looks like im going to die in the dark ages.

I wonder if someone cut off the CEO's limbs, would the medical necessity of prosthetic limbs would be questioned?

Wow. This means that now, someone can say that medical bills literally cost them an arm & a leg.

Tbh I was expecting the first comment to contain the name Luigi...

Lemmy Netizens Consider Offing Another Healthcare CEO, Questioning Their Industry Necessity - Fediverse News Network
^*not^ ^an^ ^actual^ ^news^ ^network.^ ^Yet.^

Someone needs to play super Mario bros again.

"I mean technically any medical service is not truly medically necessary, right? You could just die*"

*Funeral services are not covered under your current plan.

Someone needs some adjusting.

Why are US citzens not founding a health care co-op? Are there even viable solutions left over there?

Denied: Can't you just lie there like a broken Crash Test Dummy until you stop being a burden?

Burn it all to the ground

Okay, I can spell out the "medical necessity" for you insurance companies in a way you'll understand: mental health is important for physical health. You do things to improve mental health and you also improve physical health. So if you improve someone's mental health now, you won't be paying out for all of the later physical problems brought on by the stress and the knowledge that their life would be better if only some more miserly than Scrooge insurance company would let them have a fucking leg.

Insurance companies push obvious lies to intentionally defraud the public. That's their entire business model. That's why your doctor had to fight through dozens of automatic rejections sent by the insurance company, they fully intend to lie in order to avoid making payments they agreed too when signing you up for insurance. A just society would be putting these people in federal prisons.

That doesn't seem like a smart response to one of you getting assassinated.

For idiots who would like the UK to adopt American system instead:

"NHS covers the cost of prosthetic limbs for those who need them. In the UK, there are around 55,000 to 60,000 patients who require prosthetic limbs due to amputation or congenital limb deficiencies, and NHS England allocates about £60 million annually for these services."

You can make a perfectly serviceable peg leg with an old broom handle. Ask your insurance company for a free how-to brochure!

You think a CEO has ever been beaten near death with a broken prosthetic limb? Just asking maybe that's a thing.

I think it's about time for an organized mass murder of all healthcare ceos.... Maybe then they'll learn? Or do we need to go after the shareholders too? What will it take? How can we make them quiver in their boots half as much as they fucked us out of paychecks only to tell us to get bent when we request the care we've paid for?