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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:39:03 -0800
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On 12/11/24 16:22, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On 12/11/2024 12:26 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:42 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A few days ago, I had read in the news that the CEO of a major health
>>> insurer was gunned down. This was shocking; it seemed to mean that no
>>> one
>>> was safe from crime.
>>> Then I came across the following information on a web site: that the
>>> health care insurer of which he was the CEO had used an AI system to
>>> process claims; this system rejected 90% of all claims, including many
>>> valid ones.
>>> Maybe this site is a leftist one, and this claim is not true, I don't
>>> know for sure. But if it is true, my sympathy for this homicide victim
>>> basically evaporated. After all, if someone's health insurer doesn't
>>> pay out on valid claims... that person might not get health care. That
>>> kills people. But the legal system wasn't in the process of prosecuting
>>> him as aggressively as any other murderer.
>>
>> I saw the claim; I have no idea how true it is.
>>
>> You must keep in mind that the USA does not have a "medical system".
>> It has a Medical Industry composed of various competing business
>> enterprises.
>>
>> And the purpose of a business enterprise is to /make money/, not to
>> /pay claims/.
> 
> This 'corporatism' is something I'm less and less in love with every
> year.
> 
> No matter what their PR may tell you, the fiduciary duty of
> the officers in every public corporations is the same: "Maximize
> shareholder return on investment". NOT "Serve our customers". If
> they fail to do so at every opportunity, they can be sued.
> 
> Particularly when their customers are individuals, there is an
> enormous disparity in agency and power, and corporations will
> use their power to ride roughshod over people, and every year
> it looks like they have fewer ethics and less of a conscience.
> 
> I'd love to find a solution which rebalanced this.
> 
> pt

	It is called Universal Single Payer Health Care and
civilized nations all have it. Here the parties invested
in the current barbaric system have resisted all attempts
to put it in place effectively despite the great results
seen in the Military services. The closest we have gotten
is the ACA, Medicare and Medic-Aide(known in California as
Medi-Cal).

	Becasue of the cost of going to local ERs I failed
to do that in a timely fashion when I broke my ankle, hence
I suffer months later after what I thought was a twisted
ankle. Will the broken ankle heal properly? I will address
that matter in the future if it eventuates.

	bliss