Summary
Rising frustrations with the U.S. healthcare system have been amplified by increasing insurance claim denials and mounting costs.
Patients report prolonged battles to access doctor-recommended care, with surveys showing one in five privately insured Americans faced denial in 2022.
Anger has intensified following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, spotlighting issues like AI-based claim reviews and profit-driven practices.
While Trump’s upcoming administration proposes deregulation and privatization, critics warn this could worsen access.
Public distrust persists, but significant reforms appear unlikely as partisan debates stall progress in Washington.
What the fuck do they mean privatization, it’s already fucking private! Did we suddenly get a socialized healthcare system when I wasn’t looking?
Could have saved a lot of time by just saying Trump plans to make one of the worlds worst healthcare systems even worse in whatever way he can. We’re well on track for a healthcare system collapse in the US if Trump actually implements the things he’s said he will. It will make a matched set with the economic collapse he’s also working on.
Yes, we’ve had socialized healthcare for ages. You just aren’t allowed to have it unless you’re old, very poor, disabled, or a vet. So they mean privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA
Also active military get universal healthcare, too. Damn communist service members…
Isn’t that just…Cobra insurance?
Cobra is just the right to pay the employer portion of your health insurance after you leave your job so you don’t lose health insurance. Most americans skip it because they’re shocked to see just how much their employer subsidizes their health insurance
This is part of why there is such a push to decouple insurance from employment. Especially as corporations increasingly recognize they can both escape the tax demand of socialized health care and also escape the social contract of providing health insurance by moving more and more jobs to 1099/contractor positions
So remember when you are eyeing up that contractor job at amazon/doordash/uber/zocdoc/etc that is probably never going to unionize (if they have their say anyway): the 30-40k you earn there is really like 6-12k less (more if you want good insurance or support a family) because you will have to supply your own health/vision/dental (or you can just let yourself ignore all preventive care and/or keep your fingers crossed that you never have an inevitable health issue that will bankrupt you with your meager salary). Also keep in mind you get no retirement benefits. Good luck relying on social security/the national pension with musk and co continuing their assault on it. I don’t blame you if you take the job, we all gotta make ends meet, but try to get out asap because they will literally work you to death for a pittance
It’s also retroactive. There’s a deadline but I can wait and if I get another job before I get sick, I’m good. If I get sick and haven’t found another job, I can decide to pay for COBRA and I’m covered
Thank you for the explanation. I’ve never had to use it so I had no idea. I thought it was just some super cheap plan that barely covered anything.
Just imagine if we brought the efficiency of the insurance that tries to keep you from getting healthcare to the systems that want to give you healthcare but are grossly underfunded, like medicare or the VA! Why, we could ensure that almost no one gets a covered doctor’s visit while doubling prices.
The only part they won’t gut is the part that mandates that everyone must have insurance.
Nothing better than being legally required to pay for a service that exists to fight to provide no value to you whatsoever in return for the money.The only part they won’t gut is the part that mandates that everyone must have insurance.
Uh, that’s the part that already got axed during Trump’s last term, in 2019.
Well, goes to show how fucked my memory is recently. 🤦
Privatization means getting rid of Obamacare/ACA. Trump and GOP see that as socialised health care and have “concepts” to replace them.
Even more expensive, even more denials.
Sounds like a problem for a green plumber.
When your sink is trouble, you call them on the double! They’re faster than the others, you’ll be hooked on the plumbers!
Can you imagine the timeline where Luigi gets off through jury nullification, and then he does it again? That would be something to see.
Never going to happen. They will fill the jury with people who hate Luigi.
When will you all learn that the rich always win? They have the money, power, and influence to ALWAYS get what they want.
Nothing is ever going to change.
Every civil right you enjoy was fought and died for. The world can change and it has changed. I don’t remember the last time I had to swear an oath of fealty to my local Lord.
Except water levels
there are 40 countries that fit the developed criteria, you may look at any of them for references
Well we just voted in probably the worst person to “fix” our healthcare and who only has a “concept of a plan” regarding it. Sooo what can really happen?
“If you take government bureaucrats out of the healthcare equation and you have doctor-patient relationships, it’s better for everybody,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a video obtained by NBC News last month. “More efficient, more effective,” he said. “That’s the free market. Trump’s going to be for the free market.”
The myopathy here is mind boggling.
I bet things would change if Mike Johnson ever had a claim denied.
“Whether the murder will strengthen appetite for reform remains to be seen.”
Yes, this is actually a sentence in a current article about the American health insurance industry.
Anger has intensified following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, spotlighting issues like AI-based claim reviews and profit-driven practices.
Really? Americans are surprised that a for profit healthcare system, has profit driven practices?
They can’t be THAT supid?
But some Americans refuse to accept a socialized healthcare system that is not profit driven, and could cost about half what they pay now, if implemented at the average efficiency of other countries that have it.Americans voted for Trump, and he will probably give them the deregulation the ignorant asked for, and the healthcare hellhole they are living in will get even worse. Deregulation will make it even easier for insurance companies to legally cheat their customers, and increase their profits.
Hurray for deregulation. /sBecome a Luigi. That’s really what needs to happen. A Luigi every week until this shit is fixed
Monthly fees will go up, because the security details for the CEO’s won’t be paid out of their own pockets. That would be ludicrous, those poor CEO’s having to cut into their profits to keep themselves safe from those barbaric peasants.
You know what can fight a bad guy with a CEO position? No! Not a good guy with a CEO position. That only works in other situations.
Anyway, I hope more CEOs visit troubled schools next year. You know, to help and such. What? What were you thinking?
