I was a big believer in eliminating the health insurance industry and moving to some form of socialized system. And then my wife and I had our first child this year.
After going through that experience, which is by far the most I've ever had to deal with insurance companies and the healthcare system, I can safely say I'm even more convinced the whole god damn system needs to be thrown out and rebuilt from the ground up.
> ...eliminating the health insurance industry and moving to some form of socialized system...
I empathize with the struggles from the hassle and bloat. But what is it about socialized healthcare that is so dynamically opposed to insurance? In my experience insurance has a lot of attributes that mimic socialized healthcare: exclusivity to actual care, (intention of) spreading risk, and very very regulated.
Seems to me insurance is "socialized health care, lite version." But I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.
> Elevance Health claims this policy is a response to providers using the No Surprise Act’s independent dispute resolution process, designed to settle billing disputes between providers and insurers, to negotiate payments for procedures that typically wouldn’t be covered by the act.
> “Across the country, [independent dispute resolution] filings have skyrocketed, many for nonemergency, planned procedures that should never qualify for arbitration,” a spokesperson for Elevance Health wrote in an email to the Lever. “Certain providers are using the process as a backdoor payment channel, driving up costs that ultimately impact patients, employers, and taxpayers.”
Perverse incentives and American Healthcare, what a classic.
They’re just working to take us to the point where healthcare is so inaccessible and untenable for so many Americans that we all rise up and (peacefully) overthrow the status quo. I salute their tireless efforts!
I was a big believer in eliminating the health insurance industry and moving to some form of socialized system. And then my wife and I had our first child this year.
After going through that experience, which is by far the most I've ever had to deal with insurance companies and the healthcare system, I can safely say I'm even more convinced the whole god damn system needs to be thrown out and rebuilt from the ground up.
> ...eliminating the health insurance industry and moving to some form of socialized system...
I empathize with the struggles from the hassle and bloat. But what is it about socialized healthcare that is so dynamically opposed to insurance? In my experience insurance has a lot of attributes that mimic socialized healthcare: exclusivity to actual care, (intention of) spreading risk, and very very regulated.
Seems to me insurance is "socialized health care, lite version." But I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.
> Elevance Health claims this policy is a response to providers using the No Surprise Act’s independent dispute resolution process, designed to settle billing disputes between providers and insurers, to negotiate payments for procedures that typically wouldn’t be covered by the act.
> “Across the country, [independent dispute resolution] filings have skyrocketed, many for nonemergency, planned procedures that should never qualify for arbitration,” a spokesperson for Elevance Health wrote in an email to the Lever. “Certain providers are using the process as a backdoor payment channel, driving up costs that ultimately impact patients, employers, and taxpayers.”
Perverse incentives and American Healthcare, what a classic.
They’re just working to take us to the point where healthcare is so inaccessible and untenable for so many Americans that we all rise up and (peacefully) overthrow the status quo. I salute their tireless efforts!