Danielsjackson114 said:
But the big tent party of inclusiveness loves to use violence for everything
When people's legitimate grievances are not heard and solved, they eventually will turn to violence. That's a repeating theme throughout history. I mean, we live in a country where a bunch of people picked up muskets and shot British soldiers to get it started.
"The experience of coverage denials is widespread,
Miranda Yaver, a professor of public health policy at the University of Pittsburgh,
told NPR's Morning Edition. She's been researching coverage denials for a forthcoming book. She interviewed more than 1,300 U.S. adults and found 36% had experienced at least one coverage denial.
"The frustrating thing for a lot of patients is that there's just a lot of opacity," says Yaver, who writes a Substack called
Rationing by Inconvenience. "When people have tried to dig into the rationales for claim denials, insurers have come back and said that this information is proprietary."
UnitedHealthcare was
sued last November for allegedly using AI to process prior authorizations in Medicare Advantage plans. (Other insurers face
similar lawsuits, filed last year.)
"One of the things that the [UnitedHealthcare] lawsuit points out is that 90% of the denied claims were reversed upon appeal," said Yaver, citing an allegation from the complaint. "That is just a wild figure because this really suggests that there is a high error rate."
While I generally like your takes philosophically, you're running plays from a 1980 GOP playbook.
