Dr Says Insurance Company INTERRUPTED SURGERY With MUST-ANSWER Phone Call

[@Nackdad]

Free Luigi he has work to do. I mean if he did anything and we all know he didn't.

[@krenwregget7667]

it wasn't even the same guy, he's a patsy.

[@hotcakesism]

Also, KZbin deleted my first reply, in case my previous one didn't make sense. Love how the first amendment doesn't apply when the means of communication is privately owned and operated.

[@davidells6760]

‘If you like your medical debt, you can keep it.’

[@darinsingleton3553]

Here's to all the "Good" people, who have worked so hard to ensure that "Nothing Fundamentally Changes."

[@ellsbells9943]

This sabotage and interference SHOULD be illegal - but we know who owns the legislature, so yeah.

[@AvidiaNirvana]

Oy vey!

[@NavyAssassinOnBLAST]

Our government consists of Wall Street oligarchs, CEOs and stockholders. There's literally no seperating the two. The government is Wall St pretending to be public servants. Go Google their stock portfolios. R or D. It's a Uniparty of Wall St operators.

[@Silence_Duder_Gooder]

@@AvidiaNirvana, hey Bub, that's antisemitic.

[@AvidiaNirvana]

@@Silence_Duder_Gooder Oy vey....

[@Justin_Watson23]

Wow, I actually did lose my home in '08, my dad drank himself to death in '16, & my mom almost died from cardiac related issues several times. It was a radicalizing experience. I don't want revenge, I want to ensure this NEVER happens to another 18 year old kid, to make sure the madness of it all doesn't shove them toward painkiller addiction like what happened to me. Our motivation must be to protect - not retribution.

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

IMO retribution might be the only way to protect. You have a strong and honorable soul my friend

[@zztopz7090]

Why not both?

[@J.Green-Rx]

Retribution leads to protection, yo, or hadn't you noticed the sudden increase in approvals by United following the heroic deed?

[@ragnorian257]

So many of us did. Fuck the elites. We all saw how blatant the justice system was 2 tiers. Not by race. But - when every company ceo and leader gets off with no jail time for making millions homeless, hundreds of thousands die to insurance denials....

[@selfprojects1953]

We cancelled ours after they didn’t pay for kids cavity, wife’s glasses, kids flu antivirals/dr visit. Got an hsa and I’ll pay cash or not go. And I’m a 20 year insurance agent. I refuse to sell life or health at this point. I lose money but I sleep well. Rather not make a living helping to rip people off

[@brendencarlson5220]

I’m curious, as an agent, what is it about Life Insurance that makes you not want to sell it? Legitimate question.

[@selfprojects1953]

@ the way it’s marketed. Term life should be sold in debt increments and earning years. It’s the answer to not leaving debt if you pass unexpectedly and that’s it. While is a savings account that’s tax and interest free. It should be started when you’re 2 or less and done on a term limit (paid in full / mature at a certain date). And that’s it. Other vehicles are tax schemes for the wealthy to pay taxes on money now that grows in worth and doesn’t get taxed again. Criminal behavior. But you have two extremes in the selling. Well 3 if you include people like Pbd and MLMs. But one extreme is all life is good life and you can’t have enough. False. They’ll never pay out and you’ll only pay in. The other extreme is Dave Ramsey who tells people only buy term but had multiple whole life and universal life products with State Farm. The marketing is the scam. The product is not when used by an ethical agent. But thanks to the market clients think they know too much and get mad when you say otherwise. I find it’s better just to avoid it than get yelled at for doing the right thing or feel bad cuz I scammed someone that begged to be scammed.

[@BothSidesareCorrupt]

I’m ready to do this!!! United refused to pay for my teens wisdom tooth extraction. The tooth was on its side and high risk of infection!

[@selfprojects1953]

@@BothSidesareCorrupt find good drs in your area that give discounts for cash. It’s better for everyone. They don’t have to hire insurance billing or coding specialists and wait months to get payments. And you don’t get bills 3 years later from a health insurance company that never paid and won’t call you back even though you forked out more money to them than you spent. It’s insane. It’s such a broken system that’s functioning exactly as intended.

[@shneghabat]

Thats the spirit, lets show them whos bossl

[@SkipAd82]

We need Medicare for All. At which point we can allow free mental health care for insurance executives to treat their insanity

[@kristinepauwels4086]

Nothing is free. When asked American students in high school and university if there should be free health care, they all said of course. Government should pay for it. When the reporter said ok than we gonna take 10 % of your pay check every month to pay for it all, they couldn't understand it. On the co tray, they got really offensive. Idiots.

[@Evilslayer73]

@@kristinepauwels4086 take a look here in Québec . they take more than the half of our paychecks for (FREE) healthcare and its a real success!!for their bank accounts !!and im still waiting since 2017 for a knee surgery... let that sink in.:)

[@janecreek681]

@@kristinepauwels4086 Obviously nothing is free but having an unnecessary middle man that makes a trillion a year in profits standing between us and our healthcare providers will make the process much more expensive. That is basically our defense budget. Then there are the denials that sometimes lead to death. You judge the tree by its fruit as well. Around 66K people die from lack of care and 500K declare bankruptcy every year. No developed nation on earth has anything near that relative to their populations.

[@Joeyjojoshabbadoo]

@@kristinepauwels4086 Yeah it is, it's totally free. The government could just print the money and pay for it, and take nothing out of your paycheck. It wouldn't even affect the economy, or cause inflation. That's true for a lot of things. But our government doesn't do that. Because insurance companies are generous political donors. And more importantly because our politicians are venal. They don't have to accept the money, but they always do. And our citizens are apathetic and helpless. They could replace our suborned political parties with new, completely honest ones that always do right by their voters. But they never do.

[@doktormcnasty]

@@kristinepauwels4086 Americans are paying more & getting less than citizens of countries with taxpayer-funded healthcare. And for some americans the ONLY health care is the extremely expensive taxpayer-funded emergency room visits.

[@harrykirk7415]

Always remember to point out that by far the largest addition to the cost of American health care directly caused by private healthcare insurers is the massive inefficiency they create. Sure, their greed is bad, but by far their inefficiency is the biggest problem. The inefficiency is a problem that can never be fixed until these for-profit corporations are declared illegal under US law and banned for ever, not to exist ever again in any form.

[@carycunningham9510]

Rent-seeking behavior should be barred from healthcare by law.

[@L98fiero]

@@carycunningham9510 Rent seeking, by definition, should be scrubbed from the system as much as possible, it contributes nothing to the economy, it is by definition, overhead. Rent-seeking is the practice of gaining wealth by manipulating the political or social environment without creating new wealth. It involves using economic and legal systems to gain monetary gain, rather than through productive trade.

[@Nine-Signs]

@@carycunningham9510 It should be barred from economics by law no matter the sector of the economy. Contrary to the crap libertarians and the right and centrists have pushed for decades, when Adam Smith popularised the phrase free markets he was writing of them being free from rentier capitalists and speculators and the need for regulation to prevent them from eating a nation alive from within like the economic cancer he regarded them as. He was NOT writing of the need for markets free from regulation.

[@sandorclegane3658]

Only in America.

[@Nackdad]

US exceptionalism. Everybody has universal health care except US.

[@AJohnSmith]

@@Nackdad😂 Sure they do.

[@Nackdad]

​@AJohnSmith name one country in the G20 that doesn't. Name one of our allies that doesn't.

[@leinster22]

@@NackdadThanks to the crooks in congress who accept the bribes from the insurance lobby

[@sigridfeliciano5349]

@@Nackdad 😀

[@Dani-Innit]

Nothing will be accomplished until we deal with Citizens United. As long as the insurance companies can buy a politician, they be safe.

[@leinster22]

Congress bought and sold by every lobbying group under the sun. The US congress has to be the most corrupt syndicate on earth

[@AllForOneZeroForAll]

People can't afford to pay medical bills out of pocket, so they buy an insurance policy expecting insurance to pay. Health insurance provides the same service as a casino.

[@helpis0ntheway]

All insurance is a scam yet mandated thanks to Obama! But people think Democrats will step in to help. It's insane!

[@Nackdad]

​@@helpis0ntheway you mean Romney Care?

[@sandorclegane3658]

We gotta get Luigi a day pass.

[@Bshipbuilder]

GENERAL STRIKE to demand Single Payer.

[@howarddyer3225]

Insurance companies are out of control. So are KZbin pop up ads.

[@helphelpimbeingrepressed9347]

Brave + origin ublock extension = no ads

[@helpis0ntheway]

Especially for a clip/13 min video to have so many

[@richarddefortune1329]

😂

[@shneghabat]

Wherever capitalism failed, nationalise the ressources, be it youtube or railways.

[@Majoofi]

We should stop calling it insurance. Maybe it should be called systematized extortion.

[@leinster22]

It’s called “ health insurance coverage” but in reality it’s rationed health insurance coverage

[@Nackdad]

It's a Ponzi scheme

[@nealliske7700]

Deception and evil!

[@tjmaxx4739]

Important topic, insurance companies are becoming ruthless, yet USA citizens are not coming out in millions to change these policies or doctors will not do any procedures or even emergency procedures with out cash amount for the procedure given before the operations start , this is how the health care work in third world country !

[@ohsweetmystery]

Purely between the doctor and patient. Exactly. Including payment.

[@roberthoople]

** person lying on the sidewalk dying ** Most People: "OMG! Someone get help... We have to help this person!" CEO: "Cha-Ching!"

[@douglasware4511]

Didn't B Clinton remove the Glass-Stegal law, which required the separation of banks and insurance companies?

[@EnzoVecchiaio]

I think it was separation of savings&loan from investment banks. No matter, Bubba did so many sleazy moves

[@helpis0ntheway]

Separation of banks from insurance makes zero sense 😂

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

Yup, he also signed NAFTA which outsourced American jobs to Mexico, China, and other foreign countries

[@dentonfender6492]

Healthcare is a basic human need, and does not work in profit making schemes that benefit only billionaires. Free Luigi!

[@1974Qball]

Tiny Hats say NO!!

[@alexrozynski7616]

And this is why I, as a British national and a Canadian citizen, have no desire to live in the 51st state. Our healthcare system up here absolutely has its problems, but at least I know if I have to go to a doctor for any reason, they just have to bill the province and it'll get dealt with. None of this perverse, arcane, bureaucratic nonsense you have to deal with down there. Screw that noise.

[@Nackdad]

I'd rather wait than have to go through a medical bankruptcy. If we apologize for the revolutionary war could we come back to the Commonwealth?

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

@@Nackdad 100% and people act as if we get helped here instantly anyway, just another dogsht talking point used by health insurance companies to brainwash people.

[@Nackdad]

​@@Th3Chuzzl3r very true The brainwashed would have you think that if you have a heart attack you go on a 6-month waiting list to get looked at.

[@Nine-Signs]

p.s. it didn't have to be this way, the British people could have voted for Corbyn in 2017 or 2019 but instead 70% of boomers and 55% of GenX crawled over broken glass to elect corrupt capitalist loving Tory bastards and shafted themselves, their nation, their kids, and their grandkids and Starmer is the establishments plant into Labour to ensure it will never, EVER, pose a threat to capitalism and its minority again. He is there to bury the party from within.

[@BothSidesareCorrupt]

I prefer the French or German system of healthcare. It’s superior to the Canadian or British one. Yes I’ve experienced both and the French system often had Brits who travelled to get surgery in France.

[@steveclapper5424]

Capitialism exists to create gateways each one costing more and more.

[@carycunningham9510]

Correct. Capitalism is the commodification of everything to include land, money, and people, to then be exploited until exhaustion or collapse. Economists call this rent-seeking behavior. Unregulated capitalism concentrates markets and wealth until they become unstable and collapse. The real economy is starved of all the hoarded capital. They keep doing this because it allows psychopathic fiends to become fabulously wealthy, and they share just enough of that wealth to make it happen. Or in other words, the rich then corrupt the governments to make it happen and keep it that way. Commerce has been around for thousands of years, capitalism started in the 1600's with the Portugese. Capital mobility loses its appeal when it get hoarded in the hands of a few.

[@Photoshop729]

If they reject 1:6 or 1:3 claims that an actual doctor prescribed either we have really bad doctors or the insurance company has amazing AI that is able to second guess a doctor without examining the actual patient and be correct. Oh and we aren’t even addressing that for a family of four the fist $8500 is out of pocket but even that the only give you “credit” for some fraction of what you paid. So you could be $$8500 out of pocket but they only count say $4090 of what you paid as actual coverage.

[@ohsweetmystery]

That is not true at all. Different policies have different coverage. A procedure covered by one person's policy might not be covered by another person's coverage.

[@wasabiginger6993]

As a boomer, my father was an insurance underwriter for an LA firm affiliated with Loyd's of London, so knew it was a huge scam ... therefore, never had any insurance. Problem is all insurance companies sometimes do payout when one really needs it .... but in general is another money laundrying f--ing portal.

[@mostlypeacefulguntraining]

so basically your father helped build the industry that has ruined this country, meaning you personally benefitted from it, and now 50+ years later youre telling us how you knew it all along. Ahh, the quintessential boomer. Thanks, bud

[@mericanignoranc3551]

Americans are the most submissive and gullible people on earth!

[@mericanignoranc3551]

A sociopath ur dad wuz

[@glennschexnayder3720]

@@mostlypeacefulguntraining What would you have him do?

[@katieandnick4113]

@@mostlypeacefulguntrainingthis attitude is why people rarely admit when they’re wrong and have made mistakes.

[@carycunningham9510]

This is what class warfare looks like. We live in a corrupt oligarchy. We need ranked-choice voting, ballot access, and more parties.

[@Nackdad]

Money is speech and corporations are people. We can't vote our way out of this. The only time we see systemic change in this country is with social movements. Apparently we're not there yet.

[@carycunningham9510]

@@Nackdad There is no social movement the security services can't handle. The largest march in the country's history? The Women's March. What happened after that? They lost the right to choose. The change we seek can only come from the legislature and you need a loyal party to have any effect there. You will need a large, coordinated movement that is FBI/CIA/Wall Street/Mob proof to have an effective national third party. Yeah, it's a heavy lift.

[@Nackdad]

​@@carycunningham9510take a look at the union movement in 1930s. That wasn't up for a vote but we have the weekend because of it.

[@carycunningham9510]

@@Nackdad YT apparently does not want you to have control of your own legislature so they keep censoring my responses.

[@Nackdad]

​@@carycunningham9510The electoral process is a dead end. Even if citizens United was overturned there is another obstacle.The supreme Court is an unelected theocratic legislative body that would strike down anything that goes against opus dei and their pay masters. I've been following this thread on and off all day... tons of things have gone missing.

[@AvidiaNirvana]

Why would they allow whoever it was who told her about the call to tell her while she was in surgery??? Shouldn't they have a hospital policy against that??

[@May_Lease_Uh]

Hospitals are run by administrators that want reimbursements from the insurance companies…so no.

[@helpis0ntheway]

Doesn't matter if a Dem or Rep is in office regarding the health insurance crises. Neither party is going to do anything. House of Reps won't approve anything that helps us either.

[@BothSidesareCorrupt]

Yep. Both sides don’t want to fix this. Lobbyists ensure this will continue.

[@NorthOfChickKorea]

Luigi Mangione, the Patron Saint of Healthcare❤

[@wasabiginger6993]

Am on Advantage Duel Medicare/Medicade and have been shocked by how horrific this system barely works and don't know how the elderly can possibly navigate it! Elderly kicked to the streets!!

[@Nackdad]

Medicare advantage is a private offering.

[@nomadnationalist2776]

The words are Medicaid and “dual.” My mother is in her 80s and hasn’t had difficulty figuring out coverage and payments, but everyone is different.

[@krenwregget7667]

Dear doctors: if you are tired of the predatory, for profit American system and want to help patients, move to Canada. We need you, we want you. Our system is not perfect but you will never get a call in the middle of an operation from some insurance asshole telling you they haven't been approved.

[@Jane-o8f]

Who are these people who work for insurance companies ? Stop going to work for them. Shut them down Now.

[@wearebecomedeathstar2658]

,But if we outlaw mugging thing of all the mugers who will be out of work.'

[@csadler]

The single reason Canada could never be part of the USA.

[@Nackdad]

That and the metric system

[@sejnb1]

Amoral profit-driven mentality is what business schools teach as ideal.

[@manicmode]

How very sadistic of them.

[@itssteve6018]

This guy can't call his "other department" for information?

[@johnwilliams4545]

So glad you're pointing out Luigi's innocence.

[@fkrohmer]

Insane

[@michaelmosley384]

The only reason the insurer would call is because the documentation failed to support medical necessity. No doctor with a patient under a knife should ever scrub out and leave a patient. I worked in healthcare for 20 years. Trust me when I tell you that oversight is needed to be ensure documentation supports medical necessity. Not all providers are honest stewards of a patient’s resources.

[@BondJames-vz5wk]

the insurer calls to try to save itself money. you act like they are innocent victims.

[@Viva_la_natura]

All the insurance companies do is stress us out and waste our time. They damage the patient-clinician relationships and cause tons of anxiety...I would have difficulty being someone's friend if they worked for them.

[@lluow]

Insurance companies should be legalised as nonprofit. By nature this industry is to protect and heal the society rather than producing materials. It doesn’t make any sense to let it make money out of the sufferings from the society.

[@ML-my8qq]

Remember the South Park episode about Ozempic, and during the musical number Butters gets lost in the American Health Care system lol

[@kayb4995]

I find it kinda sad this topic is just being brought up. I remember raving about this topic in high school 20 years ago and I was a stoner. I mean if it takes people this long to wake up I just have no idea how bad things will get from here

[@fawzibelguet6861]

“The American ALWAYS make the right choice after exhausting all other options “ Winston Churchill. The American dream!

[@formernorcal2530]

Calling all Claims Adjusters.......

[@johnwilliams4545]

And you guys reckon people in other countries are under the boot. 😂

[@joejacomet1630]

what Russell says in the first 30 seconds of this clip is TRUTH

[@enigma4649]

Time to exit America.

[@TheCatbert2010]

Doctors' license that are on the take should be revoked. A second opinion should be from another independent Doctor.

[@danbauer3669]

Too many Mario's. Not enough Luigi's. LA, Lahaina, East Palestine, Flint, Ashville. The class war is a hot war, but most people still think it's a cold war or nonexistent.

[@bartjargengarblbargeler1980]

Bob: "We're supposed to help people!" Gilbert Huph: "We're supposed to help OUR people! Starting with our stockholders, Bob! Who's helping them out, huh?" ~ The Incredibles

[@confucious_of_babbel8481]

Insurance companies can only get away with all of this because doctors keep complying to their BS!

[@lillygarfield4531]

No, it's because our politicians are allowing it.

[@carycunningham9510]

If you have found a way to provide free care, please, do tell.

[@carycunningham9510]

@@lillygarfield4531 Correct. The Supreme Court legalized bribery and now we have the best government money can buy.

[@confucious_of_babbel8481]

@ maybe all the doctors should stop treating anyone that works for insurance companies? I bet their policies would change pretty quick.

[@confucious_of_babbel8481]

@ what you say does contribute to the problem.

[@Silence_Duder_Gooder]

My ex-wife, who retired a year and a half ago, who was an ICC nurse for forty years, said that this has been a problem for at least a decade. She wasn't shocked at all after hearing any of this. That's not me trying to diminish this story, but it should also be highlighted that this is not a new development as well.

[@whataboutbob7967]

The last time I had surgery having stints removed they must of had a problem because I woke up in the most intense pain imaginable. For over 6 hours I was doubled over in pain on the floor in the hospital. They wonder why I don't want a follow up procedure. They did not give me any pain meds. My blood pressure was like 190/160 for hours.

[@Winterascent]

Which Insurance Company is it? Name them!!!

[@Soulglow2.0]

You will see multiple Luigi Mangiones in California mark my word. The fire victim's and those people who are being denied feel that they have nothing to lose at this point.

[@rickstevens1479]

They'll take your premiums , but don't expect them to cover you ...

[@hectron-gon-code]

They serve to provide donations to either of the two political parties. Ask yourself why isn’t this simple binary system run by artificial intelligence.

[@fishlips54]

Well Mr. Patient, it zeemz your paperz are not in order sir....

[@whatchutalkinbout]

UNaffordable Care Act is complete garbage.

[@jimrobcoyle]

Hail the algorithm! clap 👏 👏

[@anunnakimenagerie]

What if hospitals and doctors could stop ripping people off and stop accepting insurance at the same time ?

[@GaijinTV]

Good reporting. WTF

[@alienhawkq4690]

South Park covered this pretty well.

[@abelgonzalez158]

DOWN WITH THE RULING CLASS

[@ClarkPotter]

I feel like Luigi towards anyone against Universal Healthcare.

[@user-ut8yp6lx5b]

Jury nullification for Luigi.

[@mauriziomoretti5392]

Greetings from Italy. Just ouf curiosity, John Grisham's "The Rainmaker" was printed almost 30 years ago (1996). The year after that, Matt Damon played in the homonymous movie. To all of us, from this side of the Atlantic, had always been clear that your helthcare system was nothing else than a pillaging criminal/mafia style syndacate, rotten to the bone. It ain't improved since then, quite the opposite in fact it seems. And you, the people of the self appointed "greatest democracy in the world" haven't yet burned down to the ground that system?

[@macgp44]

Maurizio - Anyone who attempts to get us a government funded universal healthcare system gets shouted down as a cOmMuNiSt who wants to enslave everyone. The very small number of elected officials who are in favor of it have their opponents in the next election funded by the health insurance lobby with MILLION$ to engage in a smear campaign to make them look like the devil incarnate. Negative advertising works. Most Americans can be scared into opposing things that are objectively better, time and time again. Unfortunately, I don't see that changing anytime soon... and we are not a true democracy. We have the form of a republic, but even that has several huge flaws. We are effectively an oligarchy.

[@pranavsambamurti7746]

How's that Obamacare treatin' ya?

[@opalescentmica]

Dudes, the thumbnail you chose makes her look INSANE!

[@kmg501]

The problem didn't start with insurance companies. The problem literally started over one hundred years ago during the Teddy Roosevelt era when it was actually doctors that cajoled government to interfere with insurance. You guys really need to do your research. "How Government Solved The Health Care Crisis" by Roderick T. Long.

[@kc3810]

Everyone has to refer to Vivek as Screech from now on.

[@donlovell-m2r]

The doctor could have said piss off, I'm busy operating. I'll bet it was the hospital admin that made her take the call. It's not just insurance companies, the hospitals are just as bad.

[@PeaceIsBetter]

I will never forget watching Obama prior to his first election speaking to a crowd of medical insurance company workers in Utah I think. He told them "you provide a valuable service." OMG! No they do not. They provide zero, nothing, nada.

[@isaacswarts6826]

They could also perhaps learn to write the language of machines and computers to aid society

[@joshuaharper6709]

If a doctor comes out of surgery to take a call, all they care about is money.

[@carlnelson8188]

Clap clap clap!

[@TheVFXbyArt]

12:40 What about the thousands of jobs lost when factories closed and went to mexico and china? The net gain to society was a deficit of jobs, unemployment, homelessness and deaths of despair. Eliminating health insurance would net good for everybody!!!

[@USARealityCheck]

If it's such a problem, then come together and create an alternative system. People complain endlessly hoping for change that will never come. 😅

[@need-a-new-new-deal]

What about all the jobs? They can go and learn to code

[@jackiebailey5717]

They usually come up scam likely

[@jinndoe7068]

No such thing as a "must answer phone call".

[@detrockcity3]

The answer is to make it a free market again.

[@thetailsof2rescues835]

I’m still holding GameStop stock from back in 2021

[@apersonwhoknows]

A doctor giving a shit about their human resource patients? Yuck. Unheard Of!!

[@mns8732]

If heads won't roll from the L A fires, then don't expect any change for over priced inefficient health care. This country is to ingrained w8th special interests to change course.

[@thetrojanhorse.1320]

Remember when even Bill Maher cared about this stuff. He is such a out of touch prat these days.

[@Iron_Donkey]

👏

[@FirstEmperor]

Luigi did nothing.

[@rossqm369]

she shouldn't have

[@JoeyAgzBDA]

No she chose to answer the call. You do the right thing, which now has become a fuckin badge of honor to do apparently

[@Madferreiro]

Not a good time to live in USA.

[@peterthegreat996]

How come I’ve never had an insurance issue since 1983? I’m not trolling here . I don’t have a story. I don’t know a person who has a story. I completely believe the people who are getting screwed are getting screwed. Don’t get me wrong and I get it that my health insurance has been predicated on employment but my health insurance story is not even remotely close to anything I am hearing here so apparently some companies can do good. That’s all I’m saying.

[@Nackdad]

Somebody doesn't remember pre-existing conditions.

[@Joeyjojoshabbadoo]

They're never doing good. The service they provide, which is a financial one, could be gotten rid of. They're not doing anyone a favor even if they covered 100% of all claims, and they are most definitely extortionists, if not pure parasites. Or maybe they're both. And insurance companies aren't the only people making a lot of money off of the life or death necessity of medical care. It's a captive market, which they and others exploit, when the govt., or let's just say society collectively, could pay for all of it, making it effectively free of charge, and no new taxes and no nothing. But far less purely profitable, or remunerative. Insurance companies essentially financialize medical care, and that way all kinds of people can get rich off it. Insurance, big pharma, doctors, medical suppliers, professional administrators, the works....

[@newbeginning1510]

FREE LUIGI

[@TheReubah]

This doctor abandoned her patient which should cost her her job and is trying to point the finger at the insurance company. dont get me wrong health insurance is mess up in america but clearly so are your doctors. talk about betraying the hypocratic oath.

[@L98fiero]

But Keaton sucking money out of the system is the definition of a financialized economy and Russell, WTF is going on, 'rent seeking'? I expect we are going to se a copy of Superimperialism on your bookshelf!

[@skmed1983]

Haha! You guys missed a great opportunity... "What about the jobs? Learn to code!" That's what they told the coal miners...

[@nerolsalguod4649]

All Insurance , is and always has been a scam.

[@walterramjet]

I DONT BUY INSURANCE, EVER!

[@meowyimeow]

I'm sorry, she stopped in the middle of surgery to take a phone call from the insurance company? Has anyone else corroborated her story? I just find it hard to believe that if this actually happened, she wouldn't have told them to buzz off.