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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Boy the new and old media are having a thesaurus day with the word "killed".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I guess unalived isn't popular anymore.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago

How could Brian do this to the shareholders?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, this is only a temporary oscillation and they will soon recover and everyone will forget what happened. The damage must be done to the political structure that allows these companies to exist as they are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

And we need more heroes like Muad'dib to remind us of that and to lead the charge.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Fucking A for some fucking A, this will probably sting them more than the death of their last CEO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The aliens in Independence Day said it the best of UHC and their ilk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rw5MosKRm4

Edit: Companies, not people, to be clear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

....until it goes right back up in [insert timeframe]

Will we never learn?? Make it stick!! Take more action!! Please let this be the spark

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Insurance companies are worthless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Doesn't matter what you think really though, right? These businesses operate on measurable KPIs and if overall thresholds weren't being hit, something would happen.

If you were a manager with that attitude, you'd be a micro manager and we all know that that type of manager, in any sector, SUCKS.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 week ago

Not nearly enough.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

So let’s watch the denial rate at major insurance companies to see if it goes down.

Luigi’s trial will still be going on probably. I’m betting he’s going to drag it out as long as possible. His family is rich and influential so the trial is going to be a shit show, I hope.

And once we see a sudden (temporary) drop in denial rates, we can shit all over insurance executives again next quarter.

And the quarter after that when the denial rates sneak back up again.

Let’s just say I am really excited about shitting on that crew a lot.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

She should email back that Brian Thompson personally approved her mammogram and that they should check with him.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fucking disgusting bit is that's less than 8%. So it's still only 3% lower than it was at the beginning of the year

How many people died for that line?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (13 children)

It should be lower. This incident really put a spotlight on their claims denial rate being the highest in the industry, twice as high as industry average. A lot of customers will probably be leaving but that hit won't happen until later when the next billing cycle comes.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh no, the imaginary number is going down. Whatever shall we do?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (29 children)

And if Americans really did have the ability to shop around for the health insurance they wouldn't need in a sane country in this first place, this might be a good thing.

As it is, anyone with UHC (like my family) will end up paying a higher premium.

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