Good lord lord, we get it. Stop dropping this into every post. Democrats get diabetes and Republicans have abortions. That’s not the issue.
don’t know about this specific agency but have seen it happen with others
also seen it happen with home insurance after hurricanes
would you deny those that are paying for it?
Lewiston Maine
I don’t provide healthcare except for first aid, when I am able to and it is needed.
I don’t make the rules, reality does. Healthcare providers in the USA have, generally speaking, been very generous with giving away time and resources to people unable to pay. Old Uncle Joe did a lot of free work with his time.
The reality in my town is that healthcare is a de-facto right here in Maine, but somehow all of the nurses who were supposed to go to nursing school and then move to Maine to be nurses aren’t doing that. Same with doctors.
Sort of like what’s happening in the UK.
I might be receptive to a single-payer system if we had other parts of the budget under control and didn’t just embark upon the social experiment of importing millions of people into the country and getting them on every benefit possible. I’d still think it was a bad idea, but it would be much less of a bad idea.
The danger is that leftism (yes, that word again) doesn’t exist in a policy bubble. They have other goals, not just healthcare, and once they start achieving those goals the shortages become more acute.
That’s why the elementary school my kid had a wonderful experience at 15 years ago is a dysfunctional and dangerous mess that cannot retain its staff or attract new staff, let alone top talent.
Son of a bitch. That was impressive timing.
Don’t we all live in local places?
Is bringing up acute local impacts of government policy annoying to you?
Should these topics only be discussed as if they are theoretical debates? Should I be more receptive to the idea that improved outcomes are actually the likely result of these policies, unlike what I’ve seen in my town?
Is the nursing shortage at CMMC and St. Mary’s best explained by, I don’t know, systemic racism? Corporate greed?
It was not a personal question
if an individual is paying for healthcare and the specific issue is covered under the policy…then the individual has every right to be covered for that specific issue
Oh I agree with that 100 percent. If claims are being unethically denied, that’s a problem for the courts.
The problem for society is when we come to believe that there’s no such thing as an ethically denied claim.
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I’ll agree with that. The issue is that it needs to be transparently ethical so a denial isn’t just an AI and a CEO with a golden parachute.
I certainly wouldn’t argue for less transparency.
I’ll also continue playing the bad guy and point out the absolutely staggering number of people attempting to defraud medical insurance providers every single day. That’s a real problem that any business has a right to reasonably guard against.
I wouldn’t want him regardless.
You probably wouldn’t want his wife putting you under, either.
I’m not quite sure how to adjust her famous quote for 2024 inflation and cost increases but she always said…
“I only charge a dollar to put someone to sleep. Waking them back up costs a thousand dollars.”
Did they have a choice? No. That’s slavery. And the US brought orphans from other countries here to work, so the parents were neither paid nor consented.
You have to understand, you know who hates Americans the most? Other Americans. It’s a nation of people raised by wolves.
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I had no idea I was a slave all those years mom and dad made me work without pay for the benefit of the family.
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Maybe you can see something clever or witty in that, but I can’t. Are you saying the black people who were enslaved weren’t really slaves? They were just doing chores?
I’m saying putting kids to work isn’t the same thing as slavery. Anyone who has lived among food producers understands this very well.
And I wasn’t just doing chores, I was helping my dad on some of his job sites and I chose to de-tassle corn for much less than minimum wage when I was 13. I think I got $3.10 an hour in 1993.
Was I being exploited? It didn’t feel like it, especially when I got to ride on the tractor instead of walk the rows.
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Tell that to the children who worked in mines. Or to the children working in sweat shops today. Or the children working in Africa picking cacao. Mowing the lawn once a week was horrible by comparison, right?
Bingo.