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Friday, January 10, 2025

A doctor has shared a shocking story of how UnitedHealthcare stopped a cancer surgery to ask if it was medically necessary in a new Instagram video.

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'Out of control': UnitedHealth calls into middle of cancer surgery to question necessity www.alternet.org/united-healt ...

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-- maryloutwp.bsky.social (@maryloutwp.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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The shock collar wasn't working?

#1 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-10 01:06 AM | Reply

This sounds like the-------------'s concept of healthcare.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-10 01:29 AM | Reply

"The democrats want death panels!"

-sarah palin, queen of the moron uprising

#3 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-10 01:14 PM | Reply

UnitedHealthcare FORCES Doctor to Justify Care for Breast Cancer Patient DURING Surgery 15:51 12,201 views 2 hours ago

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-10 01:54 PM | Reply

Need more Luigis

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 02:44 PM | Reply

Queued this spinal surgeon's interesting take. "Doctors are simply an entry in a billion dollar Excel sheet."

#6 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-10 05:18 PM | Reply

Best. Country. Ever.

#7 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-10 05:22 PM | Reply

@#3 ... "The democrats want death panels!" ...

Yeah, I remember that from back in the day.

And since then I have asked the question, ~do we want for-profit healthcare to make those life decisions for us?~

I remember, a notable silence from the GOP supporters here.




#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 08:20 PM | Reply

@#8 ... I remember, a notable silence from the GOP supporters here. ...

... and that notable silence seems to continue to this day.

Which makes me want to ask, what, exactly, is the GOP goal for healthcare?

Profits for corporations?


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 10:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#9 ... Which makes me want to ask, what, exactly, is the GOP goal for healthcare? ...

Anyone?


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-11 01:36 AM | Reply

LAMP

To the GOP, healthcare should be of no responsibility of the Federal government, with the exception of military personnel and elected ranking members of the party and their dependents, of course. (that means no civil servants)

Their goal is to get the cost of healthcare off their back and pass the buck to somebody else.

At the moment they're drawing a blank. But rest assured, they're working on it.

#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-11 07:10 AM | Reply

LAMP

I forgot to mention that when Trump is President, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is scheduled for the chopping block ASAP). Simply because it bears his name.

I wouldn't be fooled by Trump's apparent friendly conversation with Obama at Jimmy Carter's funeral. Trump always smiles before he stabs them in the back.

#12 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-11 07:43 AM | Reply

Which makes me want to ask, what, exactly, is the GOP goal for healthcare?

Kill the ACA because it was made by Obama. That's it. It's been years and they still don't have an alternative plan because they don't see a problem.

But watch out for the 40 or so trans athletes in this country.

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-11 08:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Capitalism at its finest...take from the poor, even on the operating table, and give to the rich. There is a very good reason the rich live longer than we at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and that is because their lives are valued far more than ours. We are as beasts of burden, or tools no longer useful, being old and worn out.

#14 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-01-12 06:42 AM | Reply

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#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10
And since then I have asked the question, ~do we want for-profit healthcare to make those life decisions for us?

Probably because you are asking the wrong questions, based on the wrong premise, despite living in a state which has Insurance Capital of the World.

Contrary to most people thinking that "other developed countries" have a "free and universal" healthcare, in reality none of them are either "free" and "universal" - people who say that either don't know that they are paying for it, how and how much they are paying for it, or that the "right" to something doesn't guarantee [timely] access to it.

People dreaming of "free all-you-can-eat" healthcare in "other countries" have never lived, worked or "experienced" healthcare systems there or don't realize that many of them are going broke and costs keep going up - because "not-for-profit" model (IOW, losing money on product/service) is generally not sustainable, unless subsidized by other sources.

Also, you conflate ["for-profit"] medical insurance [industry] with ["for-profit"] healthcare [sector] - "solving" (or destroying) private insurance won't provide cheaper, better or faster healthcare.

Most people in the US are insured through their employers and are satisfied with their insurance choices, despite "free and universal" proponents using occasional anecdotal "issues" to rage about "for-profit" healthcare system.

www.nytimes.com - Most Americans Say They Have Good Health Insurance, Polls Show | Less than 1 percent of likely voters ranked health care as their top issue. - NYT, 2024-12-13

I remember, a notable silence from the GOP supporters here.

... And besides the wrong questions, you are also asking the wrong people.

Before fork-lifting national healthcare, why not ask some "laboratories of democracy" - states - to implement the "one-size-fits-all all-you-can-eat free and universal healthcare [insurance?]" and show these no-good "greedy, for-profit" insurance companies and the people how government can get it done "faster, cheaper, better"?

Apparently, some tried and failed to find a version of government-provided "healthcare/insurance" - like "Single-payer" or "Medicare for All" - which guaranteed the "right" to healthcare but wouldn't bankrupt the state, e.g.:

www.latimes.com - Single-payer healthcare meets its fate again in the face of California's massive budget deficit - LAT, 2024-05-16

en.wikipedia.org - Vermont health care reform

cohealthinitiative.org - What's going on with universal health care in Colorado? - 2019-02-16
|------- "An insurance card doesn't necessarily guarantee you access either" ... Vermont, a state that spent years working on a single-payer health care system, serves as a cautionary tale. ... Likewise, the cost of Amendment 69 was estimated at $36 billion per year, more than the entire state budget. -------|

www.vox.com - Colorado single-payer initiative failure - 2017-09-14
|------- ... voters rejected ... single-payer system by... 79 percent to 21 percent -------|

Try understanding why these failed... before trying to "fix" something that actually works and people like. "Grass is always greener..."
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#15 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-01-12 04:50 PM | Reply

I've never heard anyone say they believe universal healthcare is free.

I have heard people saying they'd rather have their taxes pay for universal healthcare than going to subsidies for the wealthy or to the military industrial complex.

Health insurance is a scam and ends up paying for CEO bonuses.

Insurance is a scam because after paying into it your whole life they can deny your claim.

Capitalism is killing people. Because it's more profitable to let you die than pay the expenses necessary to keep you alive.

If our healthcare industry wasn't for profit, people wouldn't become so sick, because there'd be no incentive for the medical establishment to wait till the last minute so they can charge exorbitant prices to treat patients.

Unregulated capitalism is killing people.

If you have health insurance you shouldn't need gofundme to cover your health care expenses.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 05:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Colorado single-payer initiative failure - 2017-09-14
|------- ... voters rejected ... single-payer system by... 79 percent to 21 percent -------|

Propaganda works.

Did you even read you post?

It's a combination of fearmongering and misinformation.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 05:09 PM | Reply

I never read cutiepie's posts. Too long.

#18 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-12 05:11 PM | Reply

I don't mind the length of his post and he does a good job of citing his information.

But, I disagree with his statements.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 05:55 PM | Reply

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