• Granbo's Holy Hotrod@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Any rememberries when the talking point was government death panels determining life value was why we couldn’t have universal medicare? Tony Stank remembers.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    22 hours ago

    I wonder if their CEO considers himself medically necessary? To me it seems their C-suite might be a bit of a cancerous growth on the business.

  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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    22 hours ago

    Nothing like the nypost comment section to get you out of your bubble. Can’t believe there’s so many insurance company defenders

  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    Love this comment because they appear to think doctors are paid by the insurance companies and not the hospitals they work for.

    MADUFF & MADUFF
    10 April, 2026

    How long can you live without getting paid for your work. Easy to tell other people they have to work for free, you wouldn’t do it.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Nobody works more free hours than medical staff to begin with. free overtime is like a requirement, and a part of the system built to exploit the workers. “You’re not a team player unless you work for free like the rest of us”

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        I don’t have real data… but much of the medical staff in the US has a pretty strong union. So if this were the case, it would be because the union chose not to make it an issue in exchange for something else. Thus it isn’t really free overtime.

        There are surely jobs for which there is no union and unpaid overtime is standard. So they would technically work more unpaid overtime.

        That said, unpaid overtime should be illegal. Or the hospitals insurance should refuse to cover mistakes made during unpaid overtime, which would give the hospital reason to not allow it.

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      More than that; hospitals are required to provide emergency care to people who cannot pay. This often ends up being more expensive than just providing care before it becomes an emergency; which the rest of us end up paying for in the form of higher costs.

  • Smaile@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    something tells me the company will be needing some insurance of its own soon…

  • wraekscadu@vargar.org
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    2 days ago

    What’s the guy gonna do? Sue them? He’s dead. Murdered by the capitalist authoritarians.

    The only rightful place for kings is under the blade of a guillotine.

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    2 days ago

    This is flat out no different than shooting someone in my book.

    This is why people are behind Luigi.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I once went to the ed for butt disease related dehydration. The idiot PA manning the ed would not be gainsayed about my medical history that I was there for, not him. It could be possible that his 15 second glance through my 400 volume medical records may have missed some nuanced. But no, according to him I had the flu not the fatal butt disease…I meani get it out was in the middle of a flu outbreak and I was merely missing half of my butt and much of everything above it. My fatally afflicted by butt disease parts were just at the store buying cigarettes I couldn’t know what I’m talking about.

    A week later I get a letter from the medical group my insurance is through. "Jello my liege YMCA blah blah blah you went to the hospital when you only had the flu