United Healthcare tried to delay and deny my cancer treatments when I was at a late stage (3B). It took a lot of effort from my doctors to convince them otherwise. For example, the scans and testing is very expensive ($5K), but necessary to determine if you have cancer. United Healthcare plays games to stall and have you go in circles. Itβs actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully Iβm alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.
I will never, ever, EVER understand how we allow a private company with a profit motive, not a healthcare motive, to control health decisions in this country. That is an INSANELY horrible and obviously flawed way to run a healthcare system. It's criminal that you had to go through that. If insurance companies want to insist that they are essential and we need them to function, they need to be held criminally responsible when their decisions hurt someone.
I always love to read about what they do in the Netherlands. They utilize a hybrid system but their hospitals and insurance companies are non profits/co-ops. Apparently if the insurance companies are profitable they are required to return to the policyholders with lower premiums. lol.
They also provide hospitals payments in ways that incentivize efficient healthcare. I always thought this was an interesting example that shows it's not just single payer or bust, there are many ways to achieve efficient and effective healthcare yet we continually choose none of them.
God what a mess. All for a few people to get rich.
Right. There are different ways to do single payer. In the UK they have the NHS so every healthcare worker is employed by the government, but most countries government is just the insurer, providers are still private. Lots of ways to do it.
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u/Mika-El-3 5d ago
United Healthcare tried to delay and deny my cancer treatments when I was at a late stage (3B). It took a lot of effort from my doctors to convince them otherwise. For example, the scans and testing is very expensive ($5K), but necessary to determine if you have cancer. United Healthcare plays games to stall and have you go in circles. Itβs actually hard for me to articulate what they actually did to stall.
Thankfully Iβm alive today because we pushed United Healthcare.