Well yeah, that’s how they got the 120 billion. This is the system working completely as intended. “It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.”

Parasites

1. Buy shares in health insurer

2. Get claim denied

3. Sell shares

4. Pay medical bills and watch the share price drop for added schadenfreude

crazy how making health care a for profit industry has led to what some would call “death panels”

In America, ostensibly the richest nation in the world, we ration healthcare whilst the right wing politicians jeer about Canada’s system as a slippery slope to “death panels” denying care. Whilst UHC and the gang do the same thing, and that’s ‘controlling cost’ or ‘delivering efficiency’.

Distribution on a timescale is about capacity - if it’s slow for you to receive a service, that’s likely because there isn’t capacity. That capacity may have never existed because a bean counter deemed it more profitable to not hire nurses/buy dialysis machines/build a new hospital wing/etc. and have a backlog of cases.

Or that capacity exists, but is sequestered and reserved for those who pay even more; personal doctors, private clinics, or specialists who are kept idle on contract for demand surges.

In the corporate world the words larcenous and lascivious are interchangeable