You make fun of these middlemen but it's hard work finding excuses not to pay all the time!
Remember Americans pay 2-3 times) what other developed countries pay for worse outcomes on average
This isn't new news, this has been the case for decades.
There's a load of people out there voting to be poorer
mAYbE tHeYrE vOtInG fOr CreAtInG jObS
NoNe oF tHoSe MiDdLe mEn wOuLd hAvE jObS oThErWiSe
And to make it clear, they pay the most per capita to cover a minority of the population and then they pay for private insurance if they're lucky enough to have access to it.
The US government spends more on healthcare in terms of GPD than any other OECD country and has nothing to show for it. That's how ridiculous it is.
(Source: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm select just government spending and select % of GDP).
I have no problem that they have to staff their organizations. Middlemen are going to exist no matter what. The problem is that the insurance companies are for profit enterprises with public/private ownership. Plus a massive difference in C level salaries.
No kidding huh. I can't believe people don't get this.
*Forgot my link:
Frame Canada
Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might.... like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency.
The entire capitalist controlled media, and even K-12 curriculum informed by capitalist captured state governments is a hell of a propaganda pulpit, not to mention the vast majority of state and federal politicians who are bribed sock puppets preaching the false, self enriching word of Wall Street as the only truth, regardless of party on economic policy.
https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI?si=XM5uzKSNe_FK2DWq
You have to be able to... and still be willing to despite that constant force fed propaganda, critically think to rise above it. Yes, it's obvious to some of us, but most just want to follow the path of least resistance, which has been telling them their whole lives through our institutions that privatized, for profit healthcare is the pinnacle of freedumb juice, and a system where all citizens have access to quality Healthcare they can rely on regardless of their socioeconomic situation is evil commie marxist leninist socialism.
They don't understand the meaning any of those words, of course, but they've been taught through that same capitalist propaganda machine to fear them and rail against them, or again, they will lose their intentionally warped, incorrectly defined concept of freedom. Freedom of course having been warped in American vernacular to mean everything that makes our owner class wealthier faster.
"They must hate freedom"
-Literally any American movement advocating a policy that would increase socioeconomic equity or corporate accountability at this point, according to for profit domestic "news."
Oh, won't somebody think of the shareholders!
Whenever you have a service that is required by every citizen you have an opportunity for the government to step in and implement a fair solution.
US healthcare is extortion
