Anger Explodes At Health Care CEOS – OpEd
Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily.
Why? Because
One particular American's death has driven that point home. On
Those three words neatly sum up the gameplan America's giant insurers so relentlessly follow: deny the claim, defend the lawsuit, depose the patient.
Last year, United pulled down
All private insurers profit by denying help to sick people who need it. But
These private providers collect fixed fees from the federal government for each of the senior citizens they enroll. They profit when the cost of providing care to those seniors amounts to less than what the government pays them in fees. And that gives private providers an ongoing incentive to limit the care their patients receive.
No Medicare Advantage provider, the American Prospect's
The public's frustration with health insurance companies erupted bitterly after Thompson's murder.
"Thoughts and deductibles to the family," read one reaction. "Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network."
"Compassion withheld," read another, "until documentation can be produced that determines the bullet holes were not a preexisting condition."
Some of the fiercest reactions to Thompson's death came from within the medical community.
"This is someone who has participated in social murder on a mass scale," a medical student wrote in one typical post.
"My patients died," a nurse spat out in another, "while those b---s enjoyed
"If there's anything our fractured country seems to agree on," mused Bloomberg's
"To most Americans," agreed the
Among wealthier countries, Americans "die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths" despite spending almost twice as much on health care as others, a recent Commonwealth Fund Study found. And 25 percent of Americans, Gallup polling adds, have people in their family who have had to delay medical treatment for a serious illness because they couldn't afford it.
Thompson's murder won't change those stats. The system that enriched him lives on -- and the incoming Trump administration figures to make that system even worse. The corporate-friendly
That would "essentially privatize Medicare" and significantly raise the program's cost, warns analyst
With Thompson's death, America's health care powers feel and fear the American public's anger now more than ever. The rest of us need to channel that anger toward ending this system that's failed America's health.
We need to remake health care into a vital public service -- not a tool for profit.
-- This op-ed was distributed by OtherWords.org.
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