They're afraid!

Hmm, seems an American problem needed an American solution

The reason that insurance companies currently exist is to make money. That's the ONLY reason. Until that changes, the system is likely to get worse, not better.

Wish this happened three weeks ago when my wife's chemo dosage approval got held up.

I guess the lesson is to shoot early and shoot often.

It so so damn American to try to fix healthcare with gun violence

So... The murder of a CEO of a horrible company leads to better conditions for everyone?

I would probably break a ton of rules on lemmy to suggest any further actions based on this result, so I'm not going to.

^But, you know...^

Why so scared guys? I thought motive was unclear.

I know folks don't want to hear this, but this anecdote is quite dubious. Big companies don't move that quickly, especially in a business as complicated as health insurance. There are various plan levels and many individualized, specifically, for certain employers, as well as many elective medications (wegovy anyone?) for this to have been done in a couple of days. There's no way these CEOs and executives said to just blanket approve all prescriptions. They would just pay a substantial amount for personal security, with company money, while maintaining their profits.

Are we expected to believe that this is actually happening?

Yea no way that's true. I mean I wish it was but these greedy fucks aren't gonna stop being greedy.

I'm happy that there was a change for these folks. There is not doubt about that. As someone that just sort of lived without insurance for a big portion of my life, and I still don't have a doctor/gp, and have had problems with doctors and specialists cancelling on me after ER visits I am really confused what to think.

I've got to rethink all of this violence as an option to stop the rich from playing fuck fuck. it still feels gross that CEO had to be murdered to create change. But I am happy if this post is working with facts of people getting access to medicine and healthier life experiences.

This is just trying to adapt to stay alive (the industry, not the people) when they really should be utterly destroyed in favor of single payer healthcare. Don't let up because they're behaving like they have a gun pointed at their corporate person and promising the holder anything to keep making billions.

That's how it works.

Usually the quote is about all political power coming from the end of a rifle, but I guess this time it was a pistol.

Regardless of stance on assassinations, very big positives can come from this event.

Congress/GOP is less likely to eliminate medicare, and the insurance sector is behaving in "self regulation" the GOP says all companies can do.

Someone do the math on how long it takes before an other one needs to be taken down a peg again for the insurance to keep doing their job.

It's very symptomatic of how blatantly immoral and disgusting capitalism is: The only time capitalists will stop gouging themselves with money directly from other people's suffering is when they fear for their own lives. You, they'll happily let die for profit otherwise.

This will last a week and go back to deny, delay depose!

I call it success

Hold on, anybody got the sauce? Can anyone confirm this kind of thing is happening?

Capitalists will only behave if they're afraid or if it's profitable. The latter is rarely the case.

is this related to the British storm that I've heard from network rail about?

Perfect timing - I have a prescription to pick up at Safeway tomorrow.

Everyone commenting is just having fun, right? There is no one who actually believes this, I hope.