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EDIT: I think you should get the service you pay for, just so that’s clear.

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Without realizing it, Mike Beasley makes a great argument for why private, for-profit health insurance shouldn’t exist.

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It’s like all the media that think they are defending Brian Thompson by saying he was less horrible than the average healthcare CEO. Sometimes I wonder if they are making an argument for resurrecting the guillotine industry.

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As some who has no clue who Mike Beasley is, that seems like a perfectly legitimate Interpretation. A lot of people, like the one he is replying too, knowingly or not are defending the existing system and the existence of health insurances companies.

I mean, forget about health for a second: we all know insurance companies fucking suck, and they are essentially just a symptom of a shitty system. So why are we fighting/wishing/hoping for them to be run better/more empathetically instead of wanting a different system?

I think the his comment can be seen as a call-out of how some people are missing the root of the issue.

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“It’s a business” is not a justification for evil, and yet that’s always how the phrase is used.

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it’s a business that helps you pay your bills

Quite the opposite, it’s a business that makes your bills expensive.

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The very concept of paying for health care through insurance is evil.

Why do we even allow a profit motive to deny health care? Should be straight up illegal.

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UnitedHealth Group is so vertically integrated that, in fact they do own doctors, hospitals and pharmacies under the Optum brand. So yes, they do have a duty to take care of people even if they act like they don’t.

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