Opinion | ‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care
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Insurance companies have weaponized a seemingly benign process to protect their profits, and it’s putting patients at risk.
  • Dem BosainEnglish
    37·
    9 months ago

    Remember all the hysteria over “death panels” during the ACA debates? Fooled you, they were already here, invented by insurance companies.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      That’s why I’m very open about who decided when my mom died. The government didn’t choose, her doctor didn’t choose, and neither her nor her family chose. You get three resurgences of cancer, that’s what the insurance company decided.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      They paired that with a ton of bullshit about “corporate efficiency” vs " government corruption". It was one of the biggest Anarcho-Capitalist PR coups in my life.