United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma
United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma
The patient's doctor criticized the insurance company, saying that the treatment was necessary to prevent her from dying.
This is why asymmetric warfare works. Nobody would care about this story if a hero didn't take actions into his own hands.
If your oppressors are upset and scared, that's a good thing.
Well people would care if they knew about it but it wouldn’t be publicized because it would be business as usual
So the question is how does this keep getting publicized? I am a therapist by trade and I just had 8 clients drop services prematurely because today is the day deductibles reset and they can no longer afford treatment. I had another client whose insurance rejected historical claims and demanded $876 returned weeks after the fact (that I am supposed to in turn charge directly to the client). How do these things get publicized? This stuff happens every day. None of these were with United though, does that matter? Or is United the only “bad” insurer. I am sure every practitioner in America has similar stories just from the past month
Further, what happens with this publicity? Will this be an occupy wall street situation where there is a big noise for a moment, then it fizzles out and absolutely nothing at all changes? Probably, because I don’t see an answer to this question
Capitalism is ill equipped to deal with things like health care. The two are at odds. Until we get recognition of that, nothing changes.