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And in the US, you get the privilege of paying for the paper on which the denial letter was printed... and, to make it better, the bureaucrat's salary. If you
by pwnstigator 17y ago
And in the US, you get the privilege of paying for the paper on which the denial letter was printed... and, to make it better, the bureaucrat's salary.
If you buy private health insurance, you're literally paying the salary of the asshole who pores over people's medical records looking for reasons to deny care (e.g. undisclosed insomnia prescription from 1982 as a "pre-existing condition").
- mrshoe 17y agoJust to play devil's advocate, here's a mind bender for you: we should be grateful to that asshole. The insurance company is paying his salary because it costs them less than would the care that he manages to deny. If he didn't exist, the insurance company's costs would increase. This means that insurance premiums would have to increase. Whether you buy your insurance directly, or it's deducted from your paycheck, or your employer pays for it in full, that increased cost of insurance premiums would trickle down to you in the end.
- pwnstigator 17y agoJust to play devil's advocate, here's a mind bender for you: we should be grateful to that asshole. Until you or I get cancer, that is. Last I checked, the probability of you and I having at least one life-threatening health problem in the next 100 years was pretty close to 1.0. What's actually happening, regarding that asshole, is that you're paying 95% premiums for 85% care. It gets worse than that, because the 15% being shaved off is at the high-cost end, which is precisely where you need your insurance.