The People Cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting

[dblack]

Medicare Administrative Contractors | CMS

Since Medicare’s inception in 1966, private health care insurers have processed medical claims for Medicare beneficiaries. Originally these entities were known as Part A Fiscal Intermediaries (FI) and Part B carriers.

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Since Medicare’s inception in 1966, private health care insurers have processed medical claims for Medicare beneficiaries. Originally these entities were known as Part A Fiscal Intermediaries (FI) and Part B carriers. In 2003 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was directed via Section 911 of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 to replace the Part A FIs and Part B carriers with A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).

Thank you. I've been pointing this out for ages and it always falls on deaf ears. Medicare for all wouldn't change a ******* thing when it comes to insurance industry profits, other than guarantee their baseline.

 

[Hum Dinger]

That's not true. Even in my red state programs are available for the poor and they spend nothing on premiums and get excellent coverage

Yes, we're aware that Red States milk the federal government, then whine about big government.

The quality of healthcare for the poor sucks, but it's better than nothing.

I had a neighbor that needed several bypasses, but under Medicaid they would only do whichever one was immediately threatening his life. They should have done all of them in the same operation. He died during his second (third?) bypass operation.

 

[Zincwarrior]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/uk/uk-nhs-crisis-falling-apart-gbr-intl/index.html

Now look at Canada, Germany, France etc. we are LAST in developed countries.

 

[martybegan]

Now look at Canada, Germany, France etc. we are LAST in developed countries.

By purposely skewed metrics.

Meanwhile in Canada:

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2024 Report

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Yes, we're aware that Red States milk the federal government, then whine about big government.

The quality of healthcare for the poor sucks, but it's better than nothing.

I had a neighbor that needed several bypasses, but under Medicaid they would only do whichever one was immediately threatening his life. They should have done all of them in the same operation. He died during his second (third?) bypass operation.

It's more rampant in blue states.

Stop annoying people, you're obviously ill informed and a squawking leftist

 

[Hum Dinger]

Then why are there so many complaints about wait times in places like England and Canada?

Do you seriously want to compare complaints in England & Canada to those in the U.S.?

We can start by pointing out that people are shooting Healthcare insurance CEOs here in the U.S.

 

[Zincwarrior]

By purposely skewed metrics.

Meanwhile in Canada:

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2024 Report

Prescriptions are cheaper there. Florida was even trying to buy them from there. Please keep defending Medical Insurance companies.

 

[g5000]

Healthcare was not working before the aca though.

The rubes forget this.

Healthcare was broken for decades, and the Republicans did NOTHING about it.

Which is the whole reason we have Obamacare now.

The Republicans have still done NOTHING except to lie about repealing and replacing Obamacare.

And the submissive cucks just sit there and take it.

 

[g5000]

Yet no one is mad at Obama?

I don't see you getting upset about Trump lying about repealing and replacing Obamacare, cuck.

 

[Hum Dinger]

It's more rampant in blue states.

Stop annoying people, you're obviously ill informed and a squawking leftist

If you can't take the heat, leave.

 

[g5000]

That and hospitals must treat the uninsured so the costs are passed on to those with insurance.

Millions of people have been priced out of the cost of insurance.

That isn't their fault.

 

[Votto]

I don't see you getting upset about Trump lying about repealing and replacing Obamacare, cuck.

Trump can't do that, that would be Congress who lied, ones like John McCant who ran on doing it but changed his mind at the last second.

Naturally, you don't think a Congress is needed since Biden pretty much does everything by Executive Order.

 

[g5000]

Nope, Trump will be President, so it will be Trump's fault


That is how the Left wing media will sell it as they send out one of their crazy goons with a gun to go find Trump.

It is Trump's fault. He lied to your face and said he had a great and beautiful and terrific replacement for Obamacare.

So Trump entirely owns the cost of health care now, and has since his first term.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

If you can't take the heat, leave.

Childish, I don't take direction from some ill informed loon that has absolutely no idea what it's blabbering about

 

[dblack]

Trump can't do that, that would be Congress who lied, ones like John McCant who ran on doing it but changed his mind at the last second.

So why does he keep pretending that he can?

 

[Votto]

It is Trump's fault. He lied to your face and said he had a great and beautiful and terrific replacement for Obamacare.

So Trump entirely owns the cost of health care now, and has since his first term.

Everyone lies dupe, but Trump did not lie about this

Apparently you have reading comprehension problems.

It's what we all suspected long ago.

 

[pknopp]

The rubes forget this.

Healthcare was broken for decades, and the Republicans did NOTHING about it.

Which is the whole reason we have Obamacare now.

The Republicans have still done NOTHING except to lie about repealing and replacing Obamacare.

And the submissive cucks just sit there and take it.

Obamacare isn't nor was it ever the answer. It did a couple good things but did absolutely nothing to control costs that those couple of good things would run up.

It was absolutely the right thing to not deny those with pre-existing conditions coverage but even in the best system that will drive up costs and absolutely nothing was addressed there.

The first step needs to be removing Hedge funds from the equation.

 

[pknopp]

So why does he keep pretending that he can?

Same reason Biden pretended he would raise taxes on the rich.

 

[g5000]

What's their gross profit margin, douche?

UnitedHealthcare has the highest claim denial rate among insurance companies, rejecting 32% of submitted claims compared to the industry average of 16%.

Thompson, 50, was a father of two. He became CEO of UnitedHealthcare in 2021 and helped the company bring in $281 billion in profits in 2023. Between salary and other benefits, he was estimated to have more than $10 million in compensation last year.

https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder-suspect-intends-to-plead-not-guilty-lawyer/

 

[Votto]

It's pointless trying to discuss Insurance with a non-professional.

I recall, back in 2012, I had a 6 page, running conversation with a poster in here that claimed his 'wife' (whatever that might have been) died because of the lack of insurance.

Turns out, he/it was complaining because the Insurance Company wouldn't pay for procedures that had yet to be approved by the FDA and the AMA. Which, I admit is frustrating because the FDA takes its sweet-ass time approving -- Anything.

Then he/it starts complaining about how the Insurance Company had spent over 2 MILLION dollars on 'her' treatment and wouldn't spend any more. When you consider that, even today, Insurance is capped, often at 1 million.

And this happened before we talked, back in 2005. When Medical costs were one-third what they are now.

His/its complaint was that the Insurance company was a bunch of cheap bastiches because they gave up after today's equivalent of about 5 million dollars and the Insurance Company was wrong for not paying for unapproved procedures and medicines.

Insurance is a difficult topic. Very difficult. People just don't/can't understand it.

Yes, but guns make things Oh so much easier to understand.