Anthem pulled back that announcement about not covering all anesthesia real fucking quick when they saw the reaction to the news.
I didn’t realize they actually backpedaled instead of just trying to brush it under the rug: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-time-limits-anesthesia-surgery-rcna183035
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
*breathe*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I think they actually feel a little unsafe. Holy shit YES
(It actually probably wasn't due to this. They only retracted the policy in one state)
Is this how we actually make social progress? Because if this is the only effective tool we have left...
When peaceful options such as strikes, protests, and lobbying do not work. Once, people hit the tipping point of "I have reasons not to die to fuck it, I have nothing left." People will choose violence.
Add legislation, regulation, and prosecution to the list of failed peaceful attempts as well. The citizens have tried, and tried, and tried peaceful approaches. Almost nothing works anymore, because the rich have dismantled the US.
It was bound to get to this point eventually. Who was it who said something about what happens when all avenues for change are removed except for the point of a blade?
Many have said similar things through the years, perhaps most appropriately from a US President only 60 years ago. On March 13, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”.
They've forgotten that all of the tools they've rendered inert were there to prevent us from doing this.
To be clear, it never was and never will be the policy of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to not pay for medically necessary anesthesia services.
yeah. sure, Bob.
To be clear, we can smell your bullshit 100 miles away.
Anthem PR guy: To be clear, of course we'll never deny payment for medically necessary anesthesia services!
Anthem CEO: hehehe see what we did there? That's right, our policy is that after an arbitrary amount of time set by us, anesthesia is no longer medically necessary. Ha! Hahaha! Muaaaaah ha ha! high fives shareholders
Wow, can't believe they reversed course immediately. Their CEO just have been shitting bricks.
Maybe these shit bags are finally learning that their customers are humans, and humans can be just as bad as a cornered animal when the right situations occur.
Unfortunately, I don't think that is quite nearly enough.
I have the feeling insurers may want to review their existence as middlemen at all.
They’ll just wait for a better news cycle.
The American side of the internet has been absolutely savage today...and I fucking love it.
Someone is pearl clutching at me on Bluesky for saying how delighted I am, and saying how this guy has a family. Well so so the people he denies health care to, especially this kid.
"Have a heart, you mongrels! Are we condoning murder now?"
Murder is for people. Extermination is for pests.
I like to think of it as monster hunting
It's worse, they fucking approved the chemotherapy, but not the anti nausea drugs for it. Absolute monsters, "oh we'll save your life kiddo, but we're going to make you suffer for it".
They're calling the shooter The Adjuster now. I love it. Adjust many more of them..
Screw his family. They're enablers and collaborators.
They have his 10 million dollar salary to dry their tears with while other people have pain and death because of it.
If Kamala shot a health insurance ceo she’d’ve won every state. Economic populism is wildly popular here
Instead she couldn't even commit to keeping Lina Khan on the job. That tea was weak.
But somehow it's the left's fault she lost because checks notes they accurately said, repeatedly, that tacking hard to the right yet again was a losing strategy.
if CEOs didn't want to be executed they shouldn't run their businesses so provocatively.
just sayin.
Yeah, he should have thought about how he was dressed (in the blood of the insured) in that part of town.
This guy gets it
If it was a real oligarchy, the body has ways to shut it down.
CEO's getting shot is just a fact of life now. Much like our public shootings.
If Harris had promised to publicly execute every insurance CEO she'd have won.
Aren't we supposed to celebrate when an evil person is brought to justice?
Tbh that is why we should make memes that casually mention this very tragic incident whenever health insurance companies suggest any policy that sucks more money out of ordinary people, nurses and doctors' pockets.
🎶 He had it comin’ 🎶
He only had himself to blame.
And I would definitely have done the same.
I'm not a psychopath but when I heard the BBC's coverage of it... I couldn't feel bad for the guy, if what they reported is true
Wait they're talking about lead in gasoline? I don't mainstream news much
It used hence why boomers are so braindead and lack any common sense on how to run a functioning society.
I sensing a consensus from today's CEO away.
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