A guess is the hate has always been there with surveys finding Medicare for All is a popular concept the population is denied; and what's the basis? Go figure. For profit campaign contributions must matter, since they continually happen, and both parties seem to recognize and gravitate toward pay the piper, call the tune.
It is time for a change, and those wanting to Make America Great Again should pay attention. They seized the power via vote counts, and to hold it they should deliver what they promised, a better America. Starting at slamming the health profiteers would be a great move for Trump, if honestly caring about average folks. Yes their vote counts were determinative, but does that mean those voted into office, and the spoils, really care?
Strib, local content, mid-item: https://www.startribune.com/unitedhealthcare-ceos-murder-brings-criticism-of-us-insurance-industry-to-a-boiling-point/601193460
“The survey shows that the sheer complexity of insurance is as big a problem as affordability, particularly for those with the greatest needs,” KFF President and CEO Drew Altman said in a statement. “People report an obstacle course of claims denials, limited in-network providers and a labyrinth of red tape, with many saying it prevented them from getting needed care.”
Another survey of consumers, this one conducted annually by Gallup, found just 28% of respondents reported their health care coverage as “excellent” or “good” this year — 4 percentage points lower than the average for that question going back to 2001.
The acrimony on social media has been almost palpable, with some posts suggesting other executives could be targeted next and others blatantly calling for such violence.
Those with the greatest need are those expensive if not denied care, so B follows A in the alphabet of claim gum-ups and denial.
A sign of things possibly really at a boiling point - FINALLY WHERE SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE SHOT DEAD TO GET ATTENTION - is a second Strib commentary item by a Minnesotan:
American health insurance is a mess
By Steve Young-Burns
December 10, 2024 at 5:29PM
On that subheadline, Bernie has been saying that for decades, although Mr. Young-Burns writes his item without mention of Bernie.
Where the fuck is JD Vance, who poses as and might be an advocate for the little guy getting screwed by an elite. JD is a multi-millionare, so the jury is still out on that guy. A hope is his persona is for real and not a dressing for another crass politician.
Mr. Young-Burns fumes:
Our government is supposedly one of laws made for the people, by the people. How did we get here, America, and how can we be proud of the way we manage health care? The game is rigged — I’m not supposed to understand the coverage and, worse, I am supposed to be a little scared and second-guess my decision every year.
If our health insurance system is a house we live in all year, it’s time we recognize that the walls are crumbling and the roof is coming down. This is no way to live and the reality of the American health insurance mess is nothing to be proud of. I’m not asking for reform, to dither in the details and chip away at the corners, I am asking to tear the building down and build something we can actually live in. I would gladly have a clean deduction on my paycheck if I could go to the clinic when I want, see the doctor I want, and not have to spend hours every year agonizing about health insurance plans and live in fear that I’ve made a bad decision.
Yet his answer? Medicare for All, flushing out the egregious profiteering? A take no prisoners demand? He's a waffle!
I have a simple solution to consider: Write a law that says that health insurers have a fiduciary responsibility to their clients and members. Require that insurers have to take the client’s well-being as their first priority. Let them make money, as long as the systems they create benefit the insureds. Better yet, take them out of the picture entirely, we don’t need for-profit insurers in between us and our doctors and nurse practitioners, our therapists and nurses, our imaging technicians and kind receptionists. My health care should be between me and my doctor, period.
That is a plan for getting fucked a different way unless, in reality, you go the man's "Better yet" way. Leave a profit in the system beyond the doctors and other providers earning a fair pay for their years of preparation and expertise. Even then, doctors will favor better compensation rules, but the middle-man profiteers, like the dead guy multi-millionaire, being any part of an equation is asking for it; a fucking all the same however rules are dithered and words strung together by for-profit lawyers.
If there is profit making in the plan, there is profit maximization by deceit possible, and where that is possible it ALWAYS happens. It is in the DNA of greed.
Truth beckons:
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And if Democrats want to continue sucking up to wealth while selling diversity, our way, then push very, very hard on Donald and JD to be true patriots and move to recognize Bernie as also a true patriot, and to together fix the fucking mess.
Less than that is window dressing.
So, a two-party greatly failed stranglehold system at a crossroads? Bless them all, they deserve scorn and opposition unless/until they reform. If Donald/JD are in fact true reform, they are national treasures to be loved. If not, if instead business as usual, scorn them more for having been well skilled lairs. But hope, hope, hope they really fight. fight, fight for a better America, as they've said over and over, red caps. Madison Square Garden, and all.
But don't go into the new term expecting it. They are politicians now, and hope (but expect they will not prove to be statesmen in the best sense of that word). Hope, because the vote count gave you no other option. Cut them at least their first hundred days of slack, letting them prove themselves one way or the other. But expect more of the same. After all, it is/they are part of the two party stranglehold