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Anthem pulled back that announcement about not covering all anesthesia real fucking quick when they saw the reaction to the news.
I didn’t realize they actually backpedaled instead of just trying to brush it under the rug: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-time-limits-anesthesia-surgery-rcna183035
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
*breathe*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I think they actually feel a little unsafe. Holy shit YES
(It actually probably wasn’t due to this. They only retracted the policy in one state)
Is this how we actually make social progress? Because if this is the only effective tool we have left…
They’ve forgotten that all of the tools they’ve rendered inert were there to prevent us from doing this.
Look once is a fluke or vendita, but if this becomes a pattern…
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Anthem PR guy: To be clear, of course we’ll never deny payment for medically necessary anesthesia services!
Anthem CEO: hehehe see what we did there? That’s right, our policy is that after an arbitrary amount of time set by us, anesthesia is no longer medically necessary. Ha! Hahaha! Muaaaaah ha ha! high fives shareholders
Wow, can’t believe they reversed course immediately. Their CEO just have been shitting bricks.
Maybe these shit bags are finally learning that their customers are humans, and humans can be just as bad as a cornered animal when the right situations occur.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that is quite nearly enough.
I have the feeling insurers may want to review their existence as middlemen at all.
They’ll just wait for a better news cycle.
Sounds like they’re finally aware that people besides their customers can die in agony
The American side of the internet has been absolutely savage today…and I fucking love it.
Someone is pearl clutching at me on Bluesky for saying how delighted I am, and saying how this guy has a family. Well so so the people he denies health care to, especially this kid.
It’s worse, they fucking approved the chemotherapy, but not the anti nausea drugs for it. Absolute monsters, “oh we’ll save your life kiddo, but we’re going to make you suffer for it”.
They’re calling the shooter The Adjuster now. I love it. Adjust many more of them…
Where are they calling him that?
It’s floating around Bluesky and Facebook.
If Kamala shot a health insurance ceo she’d’ve won every state. Economic populism is wildly popular here
Instead she couldn’t even commit to keeping Lina Khan on the job. That tea was weak.
But somehow it’s the left’s fault she lost because checks notes they accurately said, repeatedly, that tacking hard to the right yet again was a losing strategy.
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Yeah, he should have thought about how he was dressed (in the blood of the insured) in that part of town.
This guy gets it
If it was a real oligarchy, the body has ways to shut it down.
CEO’s getting shot is just a fact of life now. Much like our public shootings.
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Or, get rid of insurers completely and move to a single payer system without parasitic middlemen.
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Unlike the current system, where healthcare becomes completely out of reach of normal people.
More like “Frugally and correctly spent”
If Harris had promised to publicly execute every insurance CEO she’d have won.
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot a CEO, okay, and I wouldn’t lose a single voter.
- Alternate universe Kamala Harris who wins in a landslide.
Aren’t we supposed to celebrate when an evil person is brought to justice?
Tbh that is why we should make memes that casually mention this very tragic incident whenever health insurance companies suggest any policy that sucks more money out of ordinary people, nurses and doctors’ pockets.
🎶 He had it comin’ 🎶
He only had himself to blame.
And I would definitely have done the same.
“We all have it comin’, kid.”
–William Munny
Is anyone doing merch for this yet?
I’m working on it
Deny, Defend, Depose, Die
I would love wearing a shirt like that
Check out cola corp.
I emailed them last night and there’s nothing official yet but dude mocked up his shirt for me right away…
God I hope so.
Wait they’re talking about lead in gasoline? I don’t mainstream news much
I sensing a consensus from today’s CEO away.
What SM is that? Dun think I bin done did seened it befowa.
