Who do you blame for all of the deaths caused by insurance denials? Some estimates are that thousands of humans die as a result of insurance coverage denial.
Who do we make responsible for death caused by insurance company denial? There is a perpetrator and there is a victim.
Our insurance-lack death rate is well documented.
Epidemiologists have long discussed the relationship between healthcare and death.
It’s dire, those without care can die from conditions that are easily treatable. Remember the young people who died because insulin was too expensive for them to purchase?
Remember when governor’s rejected Medicaid extension? Rick Scott told Floridians they didn’t need it. How would Rick Scot know? Rick Scott has never lived without the best healthcare available in America. He can afford it.
The healthcare discussion in public health became the number of deaths caused, in each state, where the Medicaid extension was denied. In Florida it was estimated that Rick Scott and the Republican state senators were responsible for 22,000 deaths because of the rejection of the Medicaid expansion.
Who really gets to be responsible for these deaths?
In America, when we shoot a man or shoot a woman we can count on going to jail. Why is this death more lethal than insurance malfeasance? It isn’t, insurance malfeasance kills tens of thousands of human beings. Those who deny insurance coverage are the murderers.
Now that we have witnessed the murder of the United HealthCare executive, all of the frustrated patients are expressing some of that frustration publicly. This morning, on TV, I witnessed the arrest of a Woman who said on a phone call, a frustrating phone call, to Blue Cross / Blue Shield “delay, deny, depose, you’re next”. Now the legal system is telling all of the humans who are suffering and even dying because of the insurance companies that they are wrong to express their frustration. The legal system has stepped in to protect the capitalists.
The situation in this country is health care for profit. If you, as a patient, don’t offer the health insurance company a profit, you will be denied, and you may die.
If you do express your frustration and pain you will be arrested for a ridiculous charge and your bail will be set at $100,000 dollars which, of course, you can hardly afford. You can’t afford bail because you have spent all of your family’s money on health care. But the system is protecting the capitalistic health insurance company that is causing your family pain.
United Health Care operating under the guise of capitalism and on behalf of shareholders is allowed to kill Americans. Now that the worst has occurred and the UHC CEO has been murdered, they will be using public tax dollars to enforce their reality onto the rest of us. They want to operate with impunity and now our own police officers will be threatening anyone who disagrees with our great capitalistic machine. Don’t dare express your anguish with the insurance company because you will be arrested.
We are angry. The health insurance industry is killing us. No one is listening.