{"id":2366,"date":"2024-12-23T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2024-12-23T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T02:42:05","slug":"its-not-a-health-system-problem-its-an-insurance-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Health System Problem? No, it’s an insurance problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Manhattan murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson lit a fire under many Americans who are furious with their insurance carriers and the cost of premiums and denial of coverage.<\/p>\n

Murder is not a respectful way to get a point across. But it has been effective. Much has been said about runaway insurance costs and respective denials for years. And has anyone listened until Luigi Mangione assassinated Thompson outside a hotel in New York?<\/p>\n

Mangione wrote: \u201cPeaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn\u2019t possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense?\u201d No matter how much we can abhor violence, it may have worked this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a panel at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York earlier this month, executives from Pfizer and Amazon said health care companies are taking a step back to better understand patients’ experiences.\u201d Health execs reckon with patient outrage after UnitedHealthcare killing<\/em>. Dec 11, 2024 (Reuters<\/strong>). Would this lede into a story distributed by Reuters occur if it weren\u2019t for a brazen act of violence toward a leader in the health insurance industry? Probably not.<\/p>\n

In the same article, insurance leaders are justifying the high costs of premiums and consistent denials by claiming that fees from doctors and hospitals are increasing, and that it is their job to negotiate those fees \u201cas well as costly prescription drugs and medical devices.\u201d It\u2019s like the out-of-control alcoholic who blames everyone else for his troubles. They\u2019re not listening.<\/p>\n

Insurance giants are now beginning to surround themselves with weaponized bodyguards to prevent another death at the hands of vigilante Luigi\u2019s. What are they doing to protect the cube farm worker whose job it is to deny the claims? Does that employee need to watch every step she takes to make sure there\u2019s not an upset insurance client with an AR-15 waiting for her in the parking lot, at the stop light, or pulling into her driveway at home?<\/p>\n

Ingrid Jacques of USA Today wrote in a column that the \u201ccallous disregard for human life is alarming to witness.\u201d She was writing about Thompson\u2019s murder. But if the sentence were read without the intent, you could swear that line refers to the millions of people who have faced financial disaster and further health problems because an insurance company refused to pay up for something the patient thought was covered. Cutting off anesthesia halfway through surgery is about as \u201ccallous disregard for life\u201d as I can think of. I can remember the day when someone didn\u2019t want to report an accident or an injury because their \u201cinsurance premiums might go up.\u201d Now, even if you make no claims, insurance premiums continue to rise at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n

We have all laughed at the cartoons wherein a doctor is speaking to a patient who is obviously in excruciating pain, wrapped up in bandages, with IVs going into each arm, a counterweight holding up a leg, and hoses going into the mouth and nose. \u201cThe insurance company says you can go home now.\u201d Today, it\u2019s not a laughing matter. They\u2019re still not listening.<\/p>\n

“Our health system needs to be better … There’s a lot of things that should cause a lot of outrage,” Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Vin Gupta said. Health system? It\u2019s that alcoholic again, blaming the system, and not taking responsibility for our system of health insurance. They refuse to listen.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to cut down this behemoth beanstalk called health insurance and go to a system that has been successful in other First World countries; single payer healthcare<\/a>. But it won\u2019t happen because lawmakers are listening to the insurance industry demands and not their constituents\u2019 heath care needs.<\/p>\n

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