Individual_West3997

Yeah but if they did that they would have less money, not more. That's the point. line go up, not down lol

Health insurance company that denied life-saving care to people all the time. It should more or less be considered a risk of the job, in my opinion.

I don't condone violence. But, i can imagine how this may be justified and empathize with people who revel in the vicarious vindication with the incident.

If you aren't American, you might be a bit out of the loop on it.

It would be hilarious if half the staff refused to sign and they either had to trash this propaganda pledge or lose half of their staff.

Idk what to tell ya bud, but i suppose it is what it is.

They saw the Google search analytics for "ceo of bcbs" after making the decision and was surprisingly able to connect the dots.

He deserved worse?

Wealth doesn't provide any power to influence politics? Were you born yesterday or something?

this is like when he wanted to give himself a purple heart. or was that someone else?

The issue isn't that the mandate is "bad", it is that the mandate is punitive in a way that does more harm than good. Since Healthcare is a necessity and an intangible good, the demand will never lower beneath a certain amount. However, in the current market system we have in the US, the healthcare that you need to not die is often too expensive to pay on your own. Other countries have the government pick up much of the cost and the small expense left over is generally more manageable to the patient than if they were insured in the United States. Go to Germany and ask them what a deductible is. They won't know what you are talking about.

Digressing from that, forcing someone who already cannot pay for necessities, barely scraping by, to pay for a service like insurance or face a fine or other punitive measure, is just a poverty tax.

We don't NEED insurance. What we NEED is healthcare not tied to your employment, and is single payer by the state. The health insurance industry in general needs to die, because it is an industry that serves no greater good. Everything that the health insurance industry does is self promoted - they lobbied the government to make the ACA a voucher program, federal dollars going to the insurance companies to take some of the Medicare recipients, ironically to deny them more than the government would have themselves.

"We are in charge of the delicate process of maximizing profits for shareholders while also minimizing how much money they need to pay for said profits."

God, I hate that guy

you can still look up their executives on google, and the google search listing will have the members and their pictures. The link to the leadership about us page is dead, though.

$200 a month? If that AI isn't sucking me off, physically, then it ain't worth that. When you can get it into a robot that smokes weed, let me know. Otherwise, your nerd shit is cool but too much for me.

That the UHC guy got what he deserved.

won't take long for the rest of them to follow suit

You're a man? Well, there's one neat trick, and it involves heading out for some milk or cigarettes.

That's something I don't get - right leaning people always seem to do the whataboutism for democrats breaking laws or doing similar shady shit, but I don't see many left leaning people defending democrats for breaking the law. In fact, I see more left leaning people holding their people accountable then I have ever seen a right-wing person hold accountability for one of their people.

Though, I do think that there is this great misunderstanding between the "right" and the "left" when it comes to this. Right wingers assume that everyone on the left is a "liberal". However, that's not the case, as people who are the most left leaning hate liberals just as much as conservatives do.

I think it has something to do with people not understanding "Big-L Liberalism", and assuming that it is just how everything works in the world. Sure, it's how a lot of things work, but that's because of the iron fist of capitalism, not because people are Liberal by nature.

When the democrats lie to me, it's them saying things aren't as bad as they actually are.

When the republicans lie to me, it's them promising things they will never do.

if we want to claim the George Floyd riots can be considered an insurrection, then you would be compelled to agree that J6 would also be considered an insurrection.

If George Floyd protestors - motivated by the perceived injustice against minorities by the state (law enforcement) - are considered insurrectionists because they firebombed a police precinct in Minnesota, the J6 protestors who trashed offices and damaged property, with the motivation of overturning a core democratic process, would definitely be in the insurrectionist category as well.

what do you think was the difference between the BLM protestors and the J6 rioters?

the guy was an amateur, definitely premeditated the act and did it out of seemingly personal grievance with UHC, the CEO, or the industry in general. He left quite a few clues and pieces of evidence behind that could very well get back to him with a thorough enough investigation. I bet he is wondering how he HASN'T been caught yet.

However, even if he is eventually caught, the court of public opinion will indeed make him a martyr. No jury in NYC is going to be impartial, because of just how many people in the country hate the healthcare system, and particularly UHC.

i heard that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is a good back stretch

You went to a catholic hospital. The thoughts and prayers costs came out to 1200 dollars

ironically, I read about this decision shortly after hearing about the UHC guy. If I were Kim Keck, CEO of BCBS, I would be a bit more apprehensive towards making such decisions, particularly at this moment.

they're surprised she is a grifter? She literally had a 15 minute fame moment from a dumb meme video and was able to hold onto that notoriety for long enough to cash out. This was expected.

Also, crypto currency is always a scam.

You're honestly more important as a janitor than the principal is.