Yesterday, MSNBC featured the story of a young child (I think like 5 years old) that was denied coverage under the family insurance plan because she was under weight. Apparently she has some nutritional problems, and the parents were trying to get her proper medical care for her condition.
The irony of that story, of course, is that the child was under weight due to a medical condition, and the insurance company was denying her coverage for the thing that would help her get her weight up.
This, of course, is due to the insurance industry being profit motivated and not giving a shit about human beings lives. They are plainly evil mother fuckers.
Naturally, today the MSNBC talking heads are reporting that United Health Care has reversed it's decision in this child's case and will cover her medical care. The talking heads thought it was a great outcome of the story.
What the stupid fuckers at MSNBC neglected to note that it wasn't a change in policy at UHC, but rather the bad press that motivated them to cover the child. They will not cover anybody else in a similar position.
Not everyone can get on the teevee in order to get decent medical care. That seems to have gone right over the stupid fuckers at MSNBC's heads.
It seems odd to me that there are people out there who think that some people simply don't "deserve" medical care. Most all of the problems in the industry would be solved by a government administered single-payer system that never denies coverage for any reason.
You'd think that would be obvious.
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Sounds great to me. But you run into the people that just aren't that smart.
For example, my old company sends me a letter that gets lost in the great abyss that is the US Postal Service.
I tell my previous coworker that the letter is gone and they'll need to resend it. He responds by saying, "And these are the people you want running your health care?"
But he's one of those people, so arguing with him is pointless. It's best to just shrug off his comments and change the subject.
That assumed that the US Postal Service works the same way as Medicare, or the VA systems. It doesn't. Most people like Medicare and the VA, even if they aren't perfect.
The issue isn't whether a single payer system would be perfect, but if it would be better than what we have now.
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