If he really wanted to make a change, maybe he should’ve gone after the whole board of directors. Seeing the justification for murder in this thread because the guy killed was a CEO is insane. If someone became a CEO, they could be shot in the street just for that. I don’t think anyone realizes how bad of a precedent that sets, even if the CEO was a bad dude. (Until I see him in the Epstein files, I’m not gonna throw judgement around.)
Let me tell a story.
I got a standard medical lab test done. For whatever reason, this test was outsourced to a random lab that billed me separately – for several thousand dollars. Out of pocket, the lab work they did costs $300 tops across the country. On average, across the country, it costs about $180. My insurance copay for it is $125.
It took me 6 months to get this straightened out, which involved long conversations with my healthcare provider, long conversations with the lab, extremely long conversations with my insurance company, long conversations with my state Attorney General’s office, long conversations with the US Department of Labor, and long conversations with the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
My healthcare provider gave me a big ol’ shrug and told me to talk to the lab. The lab told me the bill was accurate, refused to acknowledge my evidence that they were grossly overcharging, and tried (poorly) to gaslight me into a payment program. My insurance company stonewalled me at every step and denied my claim. My AG’s office was the most helpful and one of the lawyers there gave me her personal cell phone number in case I hit a wall and had no one else to call. The Department of Labor checked to make sure my employer wasn’t running a shoddy employee healthcare plan. CMS, a federal bureau, opened an investigation into my case at my request.
Eventually what happened is some dude at the Department of Labor said “you need to file a manual claim review with your insurance company.” I said I was leery about doing that because my insurance company was so unhelpful and they already denied my claim. Furthermore, if my insurance company denied this manual review, my only recourse was to eat it or ask for a third-party reviewer which was still connected to the insurance company. The guy said that's the next step and I should follow the procedure.
So I did it and – what do you know – my insurance company suddenly agreed to cover my claim because it was a surprise medical bill, even though they previously told me they decided it wasn’t a surprise medical bill and wouldn’t cover it. I paid my copay of $125 and my insurance company paid out the rest. In full. Several thousand dollars paid by a major insurance company to a medical lab company overcharging for a procedure with a code that should only cost a few hundred at most. I never heard from the Department of Labor again and CMS closed my case (since the insurance company paid out) without investigating the lab. I never went back to the healthcare provider who used that lab.
So I ask you, dear readers: who is the biggest problem in the story I just told you? Was it the insurance company for being shitty? Was it the lab for grossly overcharging people? Was it the federal government not giving a shit about this entire sham? Was it the healthcare provider for using that lab? It certainly wasn’t that lawyer at my state AG’s office. I later called her and thanked her personally for all her help.
This doesn't even get into the amount of medical fraud that insurance companies, providers, and the government has to deal with on an hourly basis. Go into a munchie thread on this website sometime. Now imagine thousands of them clogging up the healthcare system. This is also on top of all the non-compliant type 2 diabetics.
There are so many moving parts in the monstrosity that is the US healthcare system besides the healthcare companies. Anyone who lays all blame at the feet of healthcare companies is missing the forest for the trees.
