CHICAGO – In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls on Anthem to reverse this proposal immediately.
If there’s anything that we should all be aware of when it comes to insurance companies, it’s that they will fuck you as hard, and as often as possible, unless there is a law specifically prohibiting it. Even then, they’ll still try to get away with it, counting on you being too poor to fight them in court.
Insurance companies are among the most predatory and despicable entities that exist, which is why they should all be nationalized and provided by right to citizens and funded by taxpayer dollars. Specifically, rich people paying taxes.
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Musk is offended that anyone else has anything at all. That’s a type of person he is.
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Here’s hoping they get the United Healthcare treatment.
A United Healthcare retirement.
So deny their preventable death?
What, you don’t read the news?
Just choosing to phrase it with an air of plausible deniability paired with a pun related to the industry.
Who’s their CEO again?
Better look around in hotel parking lots.
Man, the timing on this announcement is breathtaking.
I bet after this a new book was opened up on the large health care insurance orgs in Vegas.
I probably can’t buy in, but certainly would be entertaining.
It isn’t - it was announced 11/14. As someone who follows healthcare news I really hope to fucking god more people start following it more closely.
Yeah but when and where is the shareholder meeting
Unfortunately, those are going to be zoom calls.
I wonder if there will ever be a participant-run health insurance company.
participant-run health insurance company
How would you envision that working? Like participants get to write their own coverage plans and decide their premiums/fees?
Health insurance was originally participant run - the old form of insurance is just a bunch of folks putting a chunk of money in a pot every so often in case they need it in an emergency. There are still health collectives like that in operation… though most of them are shitty religious people trying to dodge the ACA requirements.
Anthem CEO better watch out
Maybe it is the beginning of eat the rich. I mean something has to be done about it and the governments are not doing shit.
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Well, one didn’t
History suggests yes, for the most part, with one notable recent exception.
I’d love to know what he said, if not for the fucking mods removing every other god damned comment on this shithole website. Already looking for a new alternative.
Damn I was right with you on avoiding censorship intelligently until the last two words. It was pretty great.
Check the modlogs.
I shouldn’t have to do that. Or if they’re going to be available somewhere anyway they should simply provide the link to the log in the newly deleted comment.
Moderation shouldn’t be anonymous either, we make cops wear badges with identification.
That would defeat the point of removals.
It’s also not anonymous, it’s just that the default interface only shows “mod”.
How do you change the default interface to name the moderator?
Well, shit. I guess my point is that the only things worth removing are legitimate trolls and people completely off topic as opposed to “things the mods disagree with or don’t like”.
With today’s news it’s looking like “things the mods/admins are afraid will get them sued”. Which I hate but I kinda get because it’s not like running a Lemmy instance is profitable.
For what it’s worth I use Sync and I can read all the removed comments other than the self deleted.
Does Anthem Blue Cross, have a CEO?
Sometimes we need heroes.
The guillotine…
The ballot or the bullet maybe
From 2010 on especially, through gerrymandered redistricting, capturing state houses, voter suppression, education cuts and the evergreen tyranny of the electoral college, they’ve poisoned the ballot - that’s no longer a viable tool. There’s only one care option left that’s covered on your insurance plan…
When the police show up to investigate your murder, and they ask “Is there anyone who would wish to harm your Husband/Wife?” and your spouse just turns over your entire database of your clients, you’re the bad guy/girl.
Did they see a healthcare CEO dead on the street and thought “this is the right moment to fuck with people”?
Americans in 2025 trying to get more anesthesia:
Relevant Ontario ad: our lives are not for profit
What a great time to be alive and awake
Right after the recent news about another healthcare CEO, this seems like a great way to get your own headline
