Socialized healthcare in NYC

A few weeks ago, on December 4th, 2024, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down by an assassin. His killer was 26 year old Luigi Mangione, a scumbag no better than a lemon peel in a Shanghai gutter. Regardless, Mangione became a cult hero almost immediately after he was identified. The reason, according to the esteemed New Yorker magazine, is that Thompson represented Big Insurance, and “health insurance companies are merchants of death.”

False.

This is yet another big lie foisted on unsuspecting millions by treacherous media. They are wedded to fascistic Socialism to such an extent that they will do anything to further their depraved goals. One of them is to socialize healthcare and medicine, to give them ultimate power over our lives. Ask Canadians how they like it, now that euthanasia is the fifth leading cause of death in their country.

The narrative is that health care insurance companies are evil because they put profits over lives. They deny claims to keep their money. The money they have is fraudulently obtained because it comes with the promise of coverage. As a result, people die. Therefore, health insurance companies must be taken over by the government, to protect Americans.

Again, false.

Health insurance companies do deny claims, but this is most often because the claims are either bogus, the treatment is wrong for the specified diagnosis, or the health care provider is overcharging for the service. Rarely are legitimate claims rejected.

Indeed, health insurance companies provide a legitimate service to the public and do it better than most realize. Their business model requires them to understand diagnosis and treatment methods at a level well above your standard doctor or surgeon. Is it better to have a lobectomy or an anti-fungal treatment for desert fever? The anti-fungal treatment is less expensive, but their research shows it is also more effective and leads to fewer future complications. For that reason, they are more willing to pay for the anti-fungal treatment in that case.

If it was the reverse, and the more expensive treatment had the better long term prognosis, they are more likely to approve that claim, because alternative treatments carry the potential for future problems even if short term relief is obtained.

Health insurance companies conduct their own medical research. They employ full-time teams of medical professionals to help them understand claims and what the best course of action is. Speaking for myself, I’d rather get information from an insurance company than most doctors. There are exceptions to everything, but overall, the insurance companies have a huge edge over individual doctors due to their resources which are absolutely devoted to learning how to obtain the best outcome for patients.

When I learned of all this behind the scenes work that insurance companies perform, I wondered why they don’t charge for it separately. They do it so they don’t lose money on claims and their customers get the best medical outcomes. This service is effectively free. By protecting themselves, they protect us also.

Mangione is filth, and so are the lying degenerates who continue to bad mouth health insurance companies in their depraved attempt to socialize medicine.