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(On the back of the note) "because the system that incentivizes causing harm to people is broken, and I want to use the position of power in the company to promote better practices that benefit subscribers and work to reform the system from within."
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But the health insurance companies would still exist. Your country desperately needs public healthcare like the rest of the civilised world
Public healthcare doesn’t eliminate insurance companies, instead it makes the government into an insurance company which does all the same things: approve and reject claims, exhaustively categorize what is covered and what isn’t covered, and finally pay health care providers at the end.
I live in Canada where we have public health care. In another discussion on Lemmy it was mentioned that Ozempic started out as a diabetes drug and is now mainly used for weight loss. Well in Canada, Ozempic is not approved for general weight loss. You need to be diagnosed with diabetes before you can get it.
The US government already does this with Medicare and Medicaid.
Yes. Medicare and Medicaid are public health care, they’re just not universal.
Sure, but what makes insurance companies bad is that they're driven by profits. My country doesn't choose to not treat my cancer in an endeless chase of maximizing profits. They just treat the cancer.
Did you read my second paragraph? There are loads of illnesses and conditions that don’t get treated in my country. There are loads of procedures with extremely long waiting lists (multiple years) and there is no legal alternative unless you want to fly to another country and pay out of pocket for treatment.
I’m not saying that our universal health care system is bad. I’m saying it’s not perfect and it isn’t better in all situations. And if you have rare diseases or a lot of terminal illnesses you just don’t get treated at all. Or in the case of drugs, you could just have the government decide not to approve it for your condition and now you have no option.
They'd be fired by the board like in a nanosecond.